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 ...
Police and firefighters amid the scene of death and destruction in Omagh after the Real IRA bomb exploed in August 1998. Photo: Paul McErlane Evidence from victims’ families and survivors of the ...
After four weeks of heartbreaking testimony about the victims and from the survivors of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the final thing to be raised last week came under the banal heading of "Housekeeping".
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...