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Wed 02 Feb 2007Icy rain falls as Benedict Kiely is laid to rest in Omagh
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Icy rain ensured that yesterday felt like deepest winter. Mourners gathered outside the graveyard gates waiting for the hearse carrying writer Benedict Kiely home to Omagh town and agreed it was a great day for a funeral. Many sets of eyes scanned the road. One man said the funeral party had phoned from Monaghan town.
"But that was more than an hour ago, and there's still no sign." It was cold, some waited by the small caretaker's shed.
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