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Quiet little Tyrone village will be home to Ireland’s first ever sextuplets
Monday, 25 May 2009
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Life in the little Co Tyrone village of Dunamore will never be quite the same again.
Now home to Ireland’s first ever sextuplets, the tiny village just off the main Cookstown to Omagh road has become the most unlikely focus of the world’s media.
Home to a few hundred people, the village is a world away from the two busy towns it is situated between.
Set in the parish of Kildress, it is home to a handful of large families.
The local priest, Fr Patrick Hughes, said news of the “miracle births” had delighted everybody.
With little more than a shop and pub – the village post office closed last year – Dunamore is not used to or designed for occasions such as this.
Indeed in recent years the village has been most famous for its Celtic stone circle, but Friday’s arrivals of sextuplets will surely change all that forever.
Locals seem bemused by it all. At the pub in Dunamore yesterday the conversation shifted between the Conway babies and the Monaghan against Derry GAA match being shown.
Elsewhere people had chosen to escape the media spotlight to watch the Tyrone championship game between Kildress and their fierce rivals, Galbally.
Once fit and well, the babies will be brought by their parents, Austin and Nuala, to the family home.
The bungalow was built by Mr Conway’s uncle and was completed during the pregnancy — before the couple realised they were having sextuplets.
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