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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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 ...

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 ...

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 photos taken and ...

A paramedic who responded to the Omagh bombing has recalled the shock of not being able to identify the heads or feet of victims in body bags following the massacre. Richard Quigley told the Omagh ...