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 ...
"We told him: 'No, no, this could be very, very important both to show people what happened and also for evidence for the police'." He said that is the footage you see now of the Omagh atrocity.
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 ...
both to show people what happened and also for the evidence for the police'. "So that's the footage that you see now of the Omagh atrocity." Later Rodney Patterson described being caught in the blast.
A part time fire officer has told the Omagh bomb inquiry when he arrived at the scene of the atrocity it was like something from the Vietnam war, it was a "horror show," he said. At the time Paddy ...
He had gone to Omagh town centre with his friends David and Pauline because there was to be a break-dancing show later that day. He told the inquiry how a bomb alert had resulted in police moving ...