The words of Garry McGillion perfectly encapsulated the split-second transition from a peaceful sunny Saturday afternoon in Omagh to a scene of utter carnage and human misery. A brief moment in ...
So recalled Jim Sharkey who spoke to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry about the aftermath of the deadliest attack in the history of the Troubles. By the time the sirens subsided and the smoke cleared ...
Emergency service workers have been giving evidence to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, describing scenes which “should only have been seen in a movie”. Twenty-nine people, including a woman ...
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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 ...
When Oran Doherty got off the bus in Omagh on the way back to Buncrana, he bought himself a whole cooked chicken. It’s exactly what a hungry eight year-old kid released from home for a day ...
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 Omagh Bombing Inquiry is continuing to hear personal statements from those affected by the 1998 Real IRA atrocity. Firefighter Paddy Quinn said he has never forgotten his experiences from ...
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