A mother has told how her baby daughter was blown across the street in her buggy by the force of the Omagh bomb, and left with a piece of shrapnel embedded in her brain.
Caroline McKinney was separated from her daughter Niamh for a week when they were both injured in the 1998 Real IRA blast.
Ms McKinney, a beauty therapist, told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that she had pierced Niamh’s ears, and that is how her daughter was identified in hospital.
Ms McKinney owned a beauty salon in the Co Tyrone town and had taken her 13-month-old daughter to work on the day.
She gave evidence to the inquiry sitting…