The bomb that devastated Omagh town centre in August 1998 was the biggest single atrocity in the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people were killed, including nine ...

Police officers on duty on the day of the Omagh bombing have told the inquiry into the atrocity how they wrapped the dead in sheets and blankets and laid them out of sight in a nearby alleyway as ...

The bomb killed 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins, in the worst single atrocity in the Troubles in ...

The Irish Government has a “moral responsibility” to fund counselling for people affected by the Omagh bombing, a former ...

Rodney Patterson was in Omagh town centre when the bomb went off in August 1998 A man who survived the Omagh bomb said the attack changed his life forever. Rodney Patterson had travelled to the ...

The centre of Omagh was turned into a “war zone” after a Real IRA bomb exploded in 1998, survivors have told a public inquiry. One woman injured in the blast described how a large piece of the ...

A survivor of the Omagh bombing has said that everything that has happened in his life since 1998 has been a result of the tragedy. Rodney Patterson told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he was ...

Retired superintendent James Baxter also told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry of the trauma caused to victims due to more than 70 hoax bomb warnings in the town in the years following the massacre.

The mother of a toddler killed in the Omagh bomb has been remembered as “dignified and gracious”. Tracey Devine, whose 20-month-old daughter Breda was among the youngest victims of the Real ...

A police officer injured in the Omagh bombing has described how he tried to help victims in the scenes of devastation which followed the explosion. Allan Palmer, an RUC constable in 1998 ...

Serving police officers on the day of the Omagh bombing described the aftermath of the atrocity as "hell on earth". There was a “smell of death” one police officer who responded to the blast ...