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 said Niamh was staying with her godmother when she became ill. She said: “She was vomiting, whatever was coming up, it was black.”.
Ms McKinney said she believed the buggy Niamh was in at the time of the explosion saved her life.
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.
Ms McKinney said: “She has a piece of shrapnel in the frontal lobe of her brain.
