In their words: Omagh families describe love and loss
Veda Short, 56, worked at Wattersons drapers in Omagh and was on her lunch break when the bomb went off. The day before the attack, she had met her new grandchild Lee for the first time. She had ...
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Paramedic recalls not being able to identify heads or feet of Omagh victims
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The dead were wrapped in sheets and laid in nearby alleyway on day of Omagh bombing, inquiry hears
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 Irish Times26d
Omagh victims and their families deserve better than ‘there was no alternative’ to violence
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 ...
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Bombers 'destroyed our mother's simple and quiet family life'
A presentation showing photos of Shaun are then played over a song played by the Omagh Community Choir - which was set up after the bombing. Afterwards, the chairman, Lord Turnbull, thanks Shaun's ...
Belfast Telegraph27d
‘What we saw should only be seen in a movie,’ paramedic tells Omagh inquiry
Emergency service workers yesterday told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry what they saw in the aftermath “should only have been seen in a movie”. Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with ...