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Samantha and Frankie were married at their home in Loughbrickland, County Down
A County Down woman passed away whose circumstances persuaded the Northern Ireland delegate government to allow her wedding to take place during the confinement.
Samantha Gamble, who had a terminal cancer diagnosis, and Frankie Byrne had been together for 12 years and had planned to get married in late May.
But the coronavirus restrictions meant that weddings weren’t allowed.
Prime Minister Arlene Foster said she does not believe that anyone “could have stopped being touched by the couple.”
Ms. Byrne, from Loughbrickland, died Sunday at the South Area Hospice.
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Stormont Prime Ministers and Deputy Prime Ministers, Ms Foster and Michelle O’Neill, said they had agreed to allow marriage ceremonies in which a person is terminally ill as part of the first steps to lift the lockdown measures in Ireland from the North after the couple’s family lobbied politicians.
Thanking them for their decision, Ms. Byrne said they would “never know what it means to us.”
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Samantha said her wedding meant “everything”
Only six people, including the bride and groom and the registrar, were able to attend the garden ceremony and the wider family joined via a video link.
