Sharon Rafferty, 38, from Cabhan Aluinn, Pomeroy, Sean Kelly, 48, from Duneane Crescent, in Toomebridge and brothers Aidan Coney, 35, from Malabhui Road, Carrickmore and Gavin Joseph Coney, from Gorticashel Road, Omagh will be sentenced at a later date.
It was found at Fourmil Wood, on the outskirts of Omagh, County Tyrone, in March 2012. Three men and a woman admit charges over a dissident republican training camp in County Tyrone.
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But for Karen, the help on offer simply couldn’t meet the scale of the problems she has faced.
“I don’t mean to sound ungrateful,” she says. During a recent trip to a supermarket Karen was given three green-coloured coins. These could be placed into one of a number of charity boxes, one of which was for the Boston flood victims. She was also given a donated television, which turned out to be broken. People putting these coins in think they are helping. “People think we are being helped. “But where have those green coins actually gone? Maybe other people are getting help, I simply don’t know.
Cleaning: Cleaning the entire downstairs of her house from the filth and detritus of the flooding has involved a large investment in cleaning products. In the immediate aftermath, Karen says she was buying two bottles of spray cleaner and large numbers of cloths and scrubbing pads everyday.
This quickly became financially unsustainable so they have ended up using storage boxes outside in the backyard as a fridge for cold foods and milk. Continue reading the main story Unexpected costs Food: With no power, their refrigerator and freezer broken and without cooking facilities, Karen and George had to eat out.
On 8 May, Dissident republican Seamus McLaughlin pleads guilty to charges connected to a foiled mortar bomb attack on a police station in March 2013. The device was found in Kilcurry, north of Dundalk, near the border with Northern Ireland, as part of an investigation into dissident republican activity. 32 County Sovereignty Movement member Gary Donnelly is elected to the new Derry and Strabane super council.
He also admitted having an imitation AK47 assault rifle and an imitation handgun with intent to cause fear of violence, and a canister of CS spray. August 2011 Paddy Dixon, a former car thief who gave information to Irish police about stolen vehicles used to transport Real IRA bombs, suffered minor injuries in a pipe bomb attack at his home in County Meath.
March 2012 On 30 March two men were convicted of murdering police officer Constable Stephen Carroll in Craigavon in March 2009. Two men were convicted of murdering Constable Stephen Carroll in Craigavon The 48-year-old officer was shot dead after he and colleagues responded to a 999 call. Convicted of the murder were Brendan McConville, 40, of Glenholme Avenue, Craigavon, and John Paul Wootton, 20, of Collindale, Lurgan.
Stamps: With no power and no access to the internet, Karen initially had to write to the various utility companies. Awaiting responses by post, she says, has been one of the most stressful aspects of the flooding.
Another group brought a bucket containing a mop, a scrubbing pad and a cleaning wipe. Karen was also offered bed and breakfast accommodation, but she would not have been able to bring Rolo. One community group dropped off some donated blankets, which have proved useful and Karen continues to use them on her settees. She says she asked whether there was any alternative accommodation for Rolo, but was again told no. And it was a ‘one-off’, she says, rather than everyday. So Karen has stayed put. All very welcome, says Karen, who had no power to boil water to make a cup of tea.
“The tables fell over, the sideboard drawers fell out, everything went everywhere. The water was very powerful. “And when we opened the door everything went out and just started floating down the road. ”
From dry to being 2ft (about 0. “Everything was being soaked and knocked over and I can’t do anything because it is just continuing to come in. There were cars floating in the road. 6m) deep in water took about 10 minutes. Even my settees, which are very solid.
It happened during a second night of trouble at a sectarian flashpoint on the Lower Newtownards Road. Police said they believed dissident republicans were responsible after a photographer was shot during violence on 21 June in east Belfast. Police said the trouble was orchestrated by the loyalist paramilitary group, the UVF. May 2011 A pipe bomb exploded after being thrown into a house in Muff, County Donegal.
He was wanted by police in Northern Ireland for questioning about the murder of two men in Belfast in 2007. Mr Smith was originally from west Belfast but had moved to live in north Dublin. Declan Smith, 32, was shot in the face by a lone gunman as he dropped his child at a cr