Career
Fergal was killed by the British Army in 1990, while Michael was convicted of involvement in the South Armagh Sniper group of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, which killed nine British soldiers. In 1996, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in Newry and Armagh, but she did not stand in the subsequent Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998. In 1999, Caraher went on a speaking tour of the United States as a representative of the South Amargh Farmers and Residents Committee.
Caraher is currently the Principal of Bunscoil an Iúir, an Irish language school in Newry.