Couple's wedding saved by the sea
Trevor Kane, proprietor of the Bayview in Portballintrae, paid
tribute to water official Tommy Doherty who delivered litres of
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Eoghan and Kathy Kearney (nee McIlroy) who were wed at Ballywillan Presbyterian Church, Portrush.
"It was touch-and-go," said Trevor.
"When you're running a 25-room hotel you use a lot of water
– showers, baths, toilets, the kitchen, heating. It has been something of a nightmare with no water for most of the day.
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so hopefully the tanks will fill up overnight."
Trevor made several trips down to the ocean to stock up with
sea water for the toilets and left the buckets in strategic positions.
Bottled water was used to prepare the meal.
"It was a close-run thing," he said. "I heard that large swathes
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intrae and nearby Bushmills."
Tommy Doherty, a Grade Two Operator, said that the Bayview
was just one of hundreds of shops, homes, hotels and coffee houses affected, with Coleraine particularly badly hit, with the area tanks emptying at an alarming rate.
"With the thaw coming and frozen pipes bursting at a rate of
knots, the water just drained away," he said. "We've been delivering water all over the place, especially to the disabled, and people have
been glad to see us. But the burst mains are being fixed and
things should be back to normal
soon."