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An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Omagh (2004)
Studio: Tiger Aspect Productions,
Director: Pete Travis
Writer: Paul Greengrass, Guy Hibbert
Cast: Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker
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20 years ago today a bomb in Omagh killed 29 people - including a woman carrying twins.
Last week we travelled to the town to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed in different ways on that day
Massive thanks to Niall McSorley, Paddy Quinn and Karl Logue for being generous with their time and telling their stories and thanks to Joe McMahon for helping to make that piece happen.
Interviews/Story by Shane Stapleton
Video/Production by Joseph Conroy
- published: 15 Aug 2018
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(15 Aug 1998) English/Nat
A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and injured around 100 in a crowded market town in Northern Ireland.
Scores of people were injured on Saturday in one of the worst atrocities in three decades of conflict in the British-ruled province.
The blast shattered a busy shopping street in Omagh, a religiously mixed town 70 miles (110 kilometres) west of Belfast.
The high number of casualties has been blamed on a phoned warning 40 minutes before the blast that encouraged police to evacuate people in the wrong direction.
One minute a busy market street, the next a scene of tragedy.
Soldiers and police quickly cordoned off the bomb site in Omagh, as emergency vehicles screamed past carrying wounded.
Witnesses said there were bodies and body parts strewn across the bomb site.
Water from burst pipes flowed over the carnage as blood-streaked survivors searched frantically for friends and family.
The bomb exploded some 20 minutes after police began evacuating civilians from where the bomb was thought to be placed.
In fact, the blast caught the crowd which was gathering several hundred yards (metres) away near pubs, shops and a supermarket.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What did you see? What greeted you when you arrived on the scene?
"Oh, absolute carnage. Absolute carnage. I like many others had to abandon our car because we were not able to negotiate any further. So we parked the cars. Everyone ran to the area where the bomb had exploded. It was just a battlefield, if one could compare it, with bodies lying -- scores of injured, seriously injured. People screaming, people running, looking for their children, looking for their mothers. I've never seen devastation like it."
SUPERCAPTION: Paddy McGowan, Independent Community Councillor
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The sad thing is that the police were given a warning about a half an hour before the bomb went off. As I understand it, they thought it was to be in High Street opposite the Court House. However, 200 yards a way down on Market Street is where the actual bomb took place. That's where people actually were congregating towards to try to get away from where the bomb was supposed to be and I think that has added to the whole casualty situation here."
SUPERCAPTION: Joe Byrne, SDLP Councillor and local legislator
Before rescue squads could arrive on the scene, dozens of passers by helped the rescue effort, ferrying injured to safer ground and helping children find their parents.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And I heard the explosion and I ran to see if I could help people. The devastation was unbelievable and the people didn't deserve this trauma. They didn't deserve it. They don't deserve it anywhere. But it was just unbelievable.
Q: Did you help any people?
"Yes, we did as much as we could. But there were so many casualties and so many dead and doctors were on the scene as quick as you could. And everybody was so helpful offering their cars and their services. There was a lot of people you couldn't help. You know, there was one man I tried to help and he just had no face. It was just blown away. There's nothing more I can say. I'm sorry."
SUPERCAPTION: Anne Collin, local taxi driver
Prime Minister Tony Blair called it "an appalling act of savagery and evil by people who are determined, whatever the cost to innocent people, to wreck the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland."
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern pledged to "ruthlessly suppress" terrorist organisations that opposed the wish for peace.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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It's 20 years to the day since the single worst atrocity suffered by Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The Omagh bombing claimed 29 lives in 1998. Report by Louee Dessent-Jackson.
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(22 Aug 1998) Spanish/Eng/Nat
Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic fell silent on Saturday in memory of the 28 killed in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered where the car bomb was detonated in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh.
Hours earlier the Republican group the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), announced a ceasefire.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Omagh on Saturday to mourn the dead and injured from last week's car bomb.
Relatives of those killed stood on the steps of the courthouse alongside many of Northern Ireland's political leaders.
The solemn service was also attended by Irish and British political leaders.
Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, Irish President Mary McAleese and Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott were among those in attendance.
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness also stood among the grieving relatives.
Similar services were held on both sides of the Irish border.
Religious and community leaders spoke of the pain and suffering that has been left behind.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We declare that evil will not triumph. The pain and the loss will remain. But our community will not be torn apart."
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Brendan McCarthy, Pastor of Omagh Community Church
And at 3-10 p-m local time, people observed a minute's silence - the same time a week ago the bomb exploded.
The Republican splinter group, the Real I-R-A, have admitted planting the bomb that killed 28 and wounded more than 330.
They have since declared a ceasefire.
In response to the bombing, the British and Irish governments have vowed to crush any outlawed paramilitary groups that refuse to adhere to the multiparty agreement, which voters in both parts of Ireland ratified in May.
Tributes were also read in Spanish - in memory of the two Spanish tourists who were killed the others in their party who were injured.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Father of all mercy, we thank you for the compassion you show and the compassion those at the leisure centre and in the social and health services, the priest and all the voluntary workers in the community have shown. Your mercy and work in our name has helped us to express similar compassion among ourselves and to help us bare our own cross of pain. May those who have shown and given such mercy, themselves receive the same compassion one-hundred times over, when they themselves need it."
SUPER CAPTION: Community Member
The service was held hours after another Republican group, the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), also declared a ceasefire.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Prince Charles has arrived in Omagh on the second day of his visit to Northern Ireland. He arrived by helicopter at the Omagh Hospital and Community Care Complex. The new complex opened in 2017 and replaced the Tyrone County hospital which cared for those injured in the Omagh bomb in August 1998. . Report by Habiba Khanom.
- published: 13 Jun 2018
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Welcome to Wednesday's OTB AM - this morning we're bringing you a special feature on the Omagh bombings of 1998 - it's 20 years to the day since 29 people were killed in the town, the single deadliest incident in The Troubles.
Last week we traveled to Omagh to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed when the town was bombed 20 years ago today.
Niall McSorley, Karl Quinn and Paddy Logue tell us their stories this morning.
Outside of that, we're bringing you through all the sports pages and looking back at the newspaper stories from 1973...because; Richie Bennis joins us to talk Limerick - from playing and winning their last All-Ireland 45 years ago, to managing the team in 2007. He's seen it all!
Davy Fitzgerald speaks about staying on with the Wexford hurlers, Keith Higgins on the Mayo footballers in 2019 - both were speaking to Máire Treasa at the Hurling for Cancer charity match in Newbridge.
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(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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(19 Aug 1998) Natural Sound
Thousands of mourners in the seaside town of Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland have attended the funeral service for three young victims of the Omagh bombing.
They were joined by Irish President Mary McAleese, Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
James Barker and Sean McLoughlin, who were both 12 years old, and Oran Doherty, who was 8, were killed in Saturday's terrorist blast in Omgah.
In Northern Ireland, Mary Grimes, whose daughter and granddaughter were the first buried victims, and 17-year-old Brenda Logue were ladi to rest.
Irish President Mary McAleese was among the mourners paying their respects to the family of the three young boys killed in Saturday's Omagh bombing.
She visited the family home of one of the victims to pay a private tribute to the youngsters and offer comfort grieving family and friends.
McAleese had recently received a poem about the hopes for peace in Northern Ireland written by a small group of schoolchildren, including Sean McLoughlin, one of the young victims.
Now, the words of Sean's poem which asked for opponents to peace not to 'shatter our dream' seem all the more poignant as his family prepared to lay him to rest.
Hundreds of family, friends and classmates of the young victims waited on the street outside.
Sean McLoughlin and James Barker, both 12, and eight year old Oran Doherty were on a day trip to Omagh when they were caught in the horrific blast which killed 28 people.
The three had gone to Omagh with a group of Spanish exchange students to visit a historical park in the area.
More than 200 others were also injured in the blast.
The Republican splinter group, the 'Real I-R-A,' has admitted responsibility for the bombing.
But their apologies for the civilians killed in the blast have done little to ease the pain of these people as they wound their way through the grey, rain swept streets.
The silence was broken only by the cries of despair, sadness and anger as they followed the final journey of the three young innocent victims.
Among the mourners to join the funeral cortege were Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.
The tiny coffins were carried in a sea of mourners on the sombre walk to St. Mary's Catholic Church.
The First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly Minister David Trimble joined President McAleese and others at the service.
Not all the mourners were able to fit into the tiny church, and many listened to the service led by Bishop Seamus Hearty from outside.
It was the second day in a string of funerals to take place for those who lost their lives in the blast.
Afterwards, distraught family members followed silently behind the hearses, which were decorated with flowers and footballs in memory of the young boys.
Little Oran Doherty's coffin was draped with the green-and-white banner of the soccer team he loved, Glasgow Celtic.
Two more of those victims were also buried in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
In Beragh, to the southeast of Omagh, funeral services were held for Mary Grimes, who, at 65 years old, was the oldest victim in the attack.
Three generations of women within her family were killed by the terrorist explosion.
On Tuesday, her 30-year-old pregnant daughter Avril Monaghan and 18-month-old granddaughter were the first of Omagh's dead to be buried.
Mourners also gathered in Loughmacrory for the funeral for 17-year-old Brenda Logue.
Family and friends gathered at St. Mary's church to remember her.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Four members of the Real IRA have been found liable for the Omagh bombing, in which 29 people died. The civil case was brought by relatives of some of the victims. Vicki Hawthorne reports.
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Omagh
Coordinates: 54°35′N 7°17′W / 54.59°N 7.29°W / 54.59; -7.29
Omagh (/ˈoʊmə/ or /ˈoʊmɑː/; Irish pronunciation: [ˈomæ] – from Irish: an Ómaigh, meaning "the virgin plain" [ənˠ ˈoːmˠəi]) is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. Northern Ireland's capital city Belfast is 68 miles (109.5 km) to the east of Omagh, and Derry is 34 miles (55 km) to the north. The closest public air links to the town are situated at these cities. Enniskillen Airport, a small air strip, lies 24 miles/38.5 km to the southwest of Omagh.
The town has a population of 21,297, and the district, which is the largest in County Tyrone, had a population of 51,356 at the 2011 Census. Omagh contains the headquarters of Omagh District Council and the Western Education and Library Board, and also houses offices for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at Sperrin House, the Department for Regional Development and the Northern Ireland Roads Service at the Tyrone County Hall and the Northern Ireland Land & Property Services at Boaz House. The town is twinned with L'Haÿ-les-Roses, a town in the suburbs of Paris, France.
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Omagh Town Football and Athletic Club was a Northern Irish association football club that was based in Omagh, County Tyrone. Founded in 1962, the club played in the Irish Football League from 1990 up until its closure in 2005. They won the North West Senior Cup on six occasions and competed in the UEFA Intertoto Cup twice, in 1998 and 2003. Omagh Town was dissolved on 7 June 2005, owing to financial problems.
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Omagh Town Football and Athletic Club was formed in August 1962 by Aines McGeehan, who wanted to start a team for young players from the Derry Road area of the town of Omagh. The team was called Omagh Celtic Football Club and started off with maroon shirts with blue shorts. The team (both Catholic and Protestant) played at Quarry Field Mullaghmena in Omagh.
In 1969, the club changed its name to Omagh Town Football and Athletic Club and also changed their accommodation to the Military Holm for three years, moving to The Showgrounds afterwards. Following 1974 the kit also changed again, this time to white shirts and black shorts. This combination would change several more time before the club finally settled on a combination of red, black, and white.
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Omagh (film)
Omagh is a film dramatising the events surrounding the Omagh bombing and its aftermath, co-produced by Irish state broadcaster RTÉ and UK network Channel 4, and directed by Pete Travis. It was first shown on television in both countries in June, 2004.
Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan (Paul Kelly) was killed in the bombing, is played by Gerard McSorley, originally from Omagh. Out of respect for the residents of the town, it was filmed on location in Navan, County Meath in the Republic of Ireland.
The film ends with the Julie Miller song Broken Things, which was performed by local singer Juliet Turner at the memorial for the victims of the Omagh bombing.
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 88% of critics gave the film positive reviews, with an average score of 7.2/10, however this is based upon a sample of only 8 reviews. Critics particularly noted the gritty realism and powerful acting in the film. In his review, Scott Foundas of 'Variety magazine' said that it "serves as a companion piece to writer-producer Paul Greengrass' superb 2001 pic Bloody Sunday, but emerges as a startlingly powerful achievement in its own right".
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An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland. Omagh (2004) Studio: Tiger Aspect Productions, Director: Pete Travis Writer: Paul Greengrass, Guy Hibbert Cast: Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker Real Drama is the home of fiction! We publish full-length episodes from the most captivated series every week! SUBSCRIBE to Real Drama and click the bell notification for regular, high quality shows! Content licensed by DISTRIBUTOR to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact us at owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com #RealDrama #Film #Omagh
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(15 Aug 1998) English/Nat A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and injured around 100 in a crowded market town in Northern Ireland. Scores of people were injured on Saturday in one of the worst atrocities in three decades of conflict in the British-ruled province. The blast shattered a busy shopping street in Omagh, a religiously mixed town 70 miles (110 kilometres) west of Belfast. The high number of casualties has been blamed on a phoned warning 40 minutes before the blast that encouraged police to evacuate people in the wrong direction. One minute a busy market street, the next a scene of tragedy. Soldiers and police quickly cordoned off the bomb site in Omagh, as emergency vehicles screamed past carrying wounded. Witnesses said there were bodies and...
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N. IRELAND: OMAGH: MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR BOMB VICTIMS
(22 Aug 1998) Spanish/Eng/Nat Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic fell silent on Saturday in memory of the 28 killed in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack. More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered where the car bomb was detonated in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh. Hours earlier the Republican group the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), announced a ceasefire. More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Omagh on Saturday to mourn the dead and injured from last week's car bomb. Relatives of those killed stood on the steps of the courthouse alongside many of Northern Ireland's political leaders. The solemn service was also attended by Irish and Britis...
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Prince Charles visits Omagh Hospital in Northern Ireland
Prince Charles has arrived in Omagh on the second day of his visit to Northern Ireland. He arrived by helicopter at the Omagh Hospital and Community Care Complex. The new complex opened in 2017 and replaced the Tyrone County hospital which cared for those injured in the Omagh bomb in August 1998. . Report by Habiba Khanom.
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WATCH | Wednesday's #OTBAM - The Omagh Bombings, 20 years on | Davy Fitz | Richie Bennis on Limerick
Welcome to Wednesday's OTB AM - this morning we're bringing you a special feature on the Omagh bombings of 1998 - it's 20 years to the day since 29 people were killed in the town, the single deadliest incident in The Troubles. Last week we traveled to Omagh to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed when the town was bombed 20 years ago today. Niall McSorley, Karl Quinn and Paddy Logue tell us their stories this morning. Outside of that, we're bringing you through all the sports pages and looking back at the newspaper stories from 1973...because; Richie Bennis joins us to talk Limerick - from playing and winning their last All-Ireland 45 years ago, to managing the team in 2007. He's seen it all! Davy Fitzgerald speaks about staying on with the Wexford hurlers, Keith Higgins on the M...
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N. IRELAND: IRISH PRESIDENT MARY MCALEESE VISITS OMAGH
(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people. The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building. The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement. Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh. The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up t...
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IRELAND: FUNERAL OF 3 YOUNGSTERS KILLED IN OMAGH BOMBING
(19 Aug 1998) Natural Sound Thousands of mourners in the seaside town of Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland have attended the funeral service for three young victims of the Omagh bombing. They were joined by Irish President Mary McAleese, Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams. James Barker and Sean McLoughlin, who were both 12 years old, and Oran Doherty, who was 8, were killed in Saturday's terrorist blast in Omgah. In Northern Ireland, Mary Grimes, whose daughter and granddaughter were the first buried victims, and 17-year-old Brenda Logue were ladi to rest. Irish President Mary McAleese was among the mourners paying their respects to the family of the three young boys killed in Saturday's Omagh bombing. She visited the...
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Four Real IRA Members Found Liable For Omagh Bombing
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video/ Four members of the Real IRA have been found liable for the Omagh bombing, in which 29 people died. The civil case was brought by relatives of some of the victims. Vicki Hawthorne reports.
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An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Omagh (2004)
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An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Omagh (2004)
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An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
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31:48
The Omagh Bomb: 20 years on | OTB Special
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20 years ago today a bomb in Omagh killed 29 people - including a woman carrying twins.
Last week we travelled to the town to speak to three GAA-men whose live...
20 years ago today a bomb in Omagh killed 29 people - including a woman carrying twins.
Last week we travelled to the town to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed in different ways on that day
Massive thanks to Niall McSorley, Paddy Quinn and Karl Logue for being generous with their time and telling their stories and thanks to Joe McMahon for helping to make that piece happen.
Interviews/Story by Shane Stapleton
Video/Production by Joseph Conroy
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20 years ago today a bomb in Omagh killed 29 people - including a woman carrying twins.
Last week we travelled to the town to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed in different ways on that day
Massive thanks to Niall McSorley, Paddy Quinn and Karl Logue for being generous with their time and telling their stories and thanks to Joe McMahon for helping to make that piece happen.
Interviews/Story by Shane Stapleton
Video/Production by Joseph Conroy
- published: 15 Aug 2018
- views: 29101
4:44
N. IRELAND: OMAGH: AT LEAST 26 KILLED IN CAR BOMB BLAST
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(15 Aug 1998) English/Nat
A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and injured around 100 in a crowded market town in Northern Ireland.
Scores...
(15 Aug 1998) English/Nat
A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and injured around 100 in a crowded market town in Northern Ireland.
Scores of people were injured on Saturday in one of the worst atrocities in three decades of conflict in the British-ruled province.
The blast shattered a busy shopping street in Omagh, a religiously mixed town 70 miles (110 kilometres) west of Belfast.
The high number of casualties has been blamed on a phoned warning 40 minutes before the blast that encouraged police to evacuate people in the wrong direction.
One minute a busy market street, the next a scene of tragedy.
Soldiers and police quickly cordoned off the bomb site in Omagh, as emergency vehicles screamed past carrying wounded.
Witnesses said there were bodies and body parts strewn across the bomb site.
Water from burst pipes flowed over the carnage as blood-streaked survivors searched frantically for friends and family.
The bomb exploded some 20 minutes after police began evacuating civilians from where the bomb was thought to be placed.
In fact, the blast caught the crowd which was gathering several hundred yards (metres) away near pubs, shops and a supermarket.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What did you see? What greeted you when you arrived on the scene?
"Oh, absolute carnage. Absolute carnage. I like many others had to abandon our car because we were not able to negotiate any further. So we parked the cars. Everyone ran to the area where the bomb had exploded. It was just a battlefield, if one could compare it, with bodies lying -- scores of injured, seriously injured. People screaming, people running, looking for their children, looking for their mothers. I've never seen devastation like it."
SUPERCAPTION: Paddy McGowan, Independent Community Councillor
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The sad thing is that the police were given a warning about a half an hour before the bomb went off. As I understand it, they thought it was to be in High Street opposite the Court House. However, 200 yards a way down on Market Street is where the actual bomb took place. That's where people actually were congregating towards to try to get away from where the bomb was supposed to be and I think that has added to the whole casualty situation here."
SUPERCAPTION: Joe Byrne, SDLP Councillor and local legislator
Before rescue squads could arrive on the scene, dozens of passers by helped the rescue effort, ferrying injured to safer ground and helping children find their parents.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And I heard the explosion and I ran to see if I could help people. The devastation was unbelievable and the people didn't deserve this trauma. They didn't deserve it. They don't deserve it anywhere. But it was just unbelievable.
Q: Did you help any people?
"Yes, we did as much as we could. But there were so many casualties and so many dead and doctors were on the scene as quick as you could. And everybody was so helpful offering their cars and their services. There was a lot of people you couldn't help. You know, there was one man I tried to help and he just had no face. It was just blown away. There's nothing more I can say. I'm sorry."
SUPERCAPTION: Anne Collin, local taxi driver
Prime Minister Tony Blair called it "an appalling act of savagery and evil by people who are determined, whatever the cost to innocent people, to wreck the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland."
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern pledged to "ruthlessly suppress" terrorist organisations that opposed the wish for peace.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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(15 Aug 1998) English/Nat
A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and injured around 100 in a crowded market town in Northern Ireland.
Scores of people were injured on Saturday in one of the worst atrocities in three decades of conflict in the British-ruled province.
The blast shattered a busy shopping street in Omagh, a religiously mixed town 70 miles (110 kilometres) west of Belfast.
The high number of casualties has been blamed on a phoned warning 40 minutes before the blast that encouraged police to evacuate people in the wrong direction.
One minute a busy market street, the next a scene of tragedy.
Soldiers and police quickly cordoned off the bomb site in Omagh, as emergency vehicles screamed past carrying wounded.
Witnesses said there were bodies and body parts strewn across the bomb site.
Water from burst pipes flowed over the carnage as blood-streaked survivors searched frantically for friends and family.
The bomb exploded some 20 minutes after police began evacuating civilians from where the bomb was thought to be placed.
In fact, the blast caught the crowd which was gathering several hundred yards (metres) away near pubs, shops and a supermarket.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What did you see? What greeted you when you arrived on the scene?
"Oh, absolute carnage. Absolute carnage. I like many others had to abandon our car because we were not able to negotiate any further. So we parked the cars. Everyone ran to the area where the bomb had exploded. It was just a battlefield, if one could compare it, with bodies lying -- scores of injured, seriously injured. People screaming, people running, looking for their children, looking for their mothers. I've never seen devastation like it."
SUPERCAPTION: Paddy McGowan, Independent Community Councillor
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The sad thing is that the police were given a warning about a half an hour before the bomb went off. As I understand it, they thought it was to be in High Street opposite the Court House. However, 200 yards a way down on Market Street is where the actual bomb took place. That's where people actually were congregating towards to try to get away from where the bomb was supposed to be and I think that has added to the whole casualty situation here."
SUPERCAPTION: Joe Byrne, SDLP Councillor and local legislator
Before rescue squads could arrive on the scene, dozens of passers by helped the rescue effort, ferrying injured to safer ground and helping children find their parents.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And I heard the explosion and I ran to see if I could help people. The devastation was unbelievable and the people didn't deserve this trauma. They didn't deserve it. They don't deserve it anywhere. But it was just unbelievable.
Q: Did you help any people?
"Yes, we did as much as we could. But there were so many casualties and so many dead and doctors were on the scene as quick as you could. And everybody was so helpful offering their cars and their services. There was a lot of people you couldn't help. You know, there was one man I tried to help and he just had no face. It was just blown away. There's nothing more I can say. I'm sorry."
SUPERCAPTION: Anne Collin, local taxi driver
Prime Minister Tony Blair called it "an appalling act of savagery and evil by people who are determined, whatever the cost to innocent people, to wreck the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland."
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern pledged to "ruthlessly suppress" terrorist organisations that opposed the wish for peace.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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2:05
The Omagh bombing explained: 20 years on and no convictions
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It's 20 years to the day since the single worst atrocity suffered by Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The Omagh bombing claimed 29 lives in 1998. Report by...
It's 20 years to the day since the single worst atrocity suffered by Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The Omagh bombing claimed 29 lives in 1998. Report by Louee Dessent-Jackson.
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It's 20 years to the day since the single worst atrocity suffered by Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The Omagh bombing claimed 29 lives in 1998. Report by Louee Dessent-Jackson.
- published: 15 Aug 2018
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3:39
N. IRELAND: OMAGH: MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR BOMB VICTIMS
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(22 Aug 1998) Spanish/Eng/Nat
Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic fell silent on Saturday in memory of the 28 killed in No...
(22 Aug 1998) Spanish/Eng/Nat
Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic fell silent on Saturday in memory of the 28 killed in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered where the car bomb was detonated in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh.
Hours earlier the Republican group the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), announced a ceasefire.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Omagh on Saturday to mourn the dead and injured from last week's car bomb.
Relatives of those killed stood on the steps of the courthouse alongside many of Northern Ireland's political leaders.
The solemn service was also attended by Irish and British political leaders.
Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, Irish President Mary McAleese and Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott were among those in attendance.
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness also stood among the grieving relatives.
Similar services were held on both sides of the Irish border.
Religious and community leaders spoke of the pain and suffering that has been left behind.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We declare that evil will not triumph. The pain and the loss will remain. But our community will not be torn apart."
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Brendan McCarthy, Pastor of Omagh Community Church
And at 3-10 p-m local time, people observed a minute's silence - the same time a week ago the bomb exploded.
The Republican splinter group, the Real I-R-A, have admitted planting the bomb that killed 28 and wounded more than 330.
They have since declared a ceasefire.
In response to the bombing, the British and Irish governments have vowed to crush any outlawed paramilitary groups that refuse to adhere to the multiparty agreement, which voters in both parts of Ireland ratified in May.
Tributes were also read in Spanish - in memory of the two Spanish tourists who were killed the others in their party who were injured.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Father of all mercy, we thank you for the compassion you show and the compassion those at the leisure centre and in the social and health services, the priest and all the voluntary workers in the community have shown. Your mercy and work in our name has helped us to express similar compassion among ourselves and to help us bare our own cross of pain. May those who have shown and given such mercy, themselves receive the same compassion one-hundred times over, when they themselves need it."
SUPER CAPTION: Community Member
The service was held hours after another Republican group, the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), also declared a ceasefire.
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(22 Aug 1998) Spanish/Eng/Nat
Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic fell silent on Saturday in memory of the 28 killed in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered where the car bomb was detonated in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh.
Hours earlier the Republican group the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), announced a ceasefire.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Omagh on Saturday to mourn the dead and injured from last week's car bomb.
Relatives of those killed stood on the steps of the courthouse alongside many of Northern Ireland's political leaders.
The solemn service was also attended by Irish and British political leaders.
Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, Irish President Mary McAleese and Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott were among those in attendance.
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness also stood among the grieving relatives.
Similar services were held on both sides of the Irish border.
Religious and community leaders spoke of the pain and suffering that has been left behind.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We declare that evil will not triumph. The pain and the loss will remain. But our community will not be torn apart."
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Brendan McCarthy, Pastor of Omagh Community Church
And at 3-10 p-m local time, people observed a minute's silence - the same time a week ago the bomb exploded.
The Republican splinter group, the Real I-R-A, have admitted planting the bomb that killed 28 and wounded more than 330.
They have since declared a ceasefire.
In response to the bombing, the British and Irish governments have vowed to crush any outlawed paramilitary groups that refuse to adhere to the multiparty agreement, which voters in both parts of Ireland ratified in May.
Tributes were also read in Spanish - in memory of the two Spanish tourists who were killed the others in their party who were injured.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Father of all mercy, we thank you for the compassion you show and the compassion those at the leisure centre and in the social and health services, the priest and all the voluntary workers in the community have shown. Your mercy and work in our name has helped us to express similar compassion among ourselves and to help us bare our own cross of pain. May those who have shown and given such mercy, themselves receive the same compassion one-hundred times over, when they themselves need it."
SUPER CAPTION: Community Member
The service was held hours after another Republican group, the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), also declared a ceasefire.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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5:56
Prince Charles visits Omagh Hospital in Northern Ireland
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Prince Charles has arrived in Omagh on the second day of his visit to Northern Ireland. He arrived by helicopter at the Omagh Hospital and Community Care Comple...
Prince Charles has arrived in Omagh on the second day of his visit to Northern Ireland. He arrived by helicopter at the Omagh Hospital and Community Care Complex. The new complex opened in 2017 and replaced the Tyrone County hospital which cared for those injured in the Omagh bomb in August 1998. . Report by Habiba Khanom.
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Prince Charles has arrived in Omagh on the second day of his visit to Northern Ireland. He arrived by helicopter at the Omagh Hospital and Community Care Complex. The new complex opened in 2017 and replaced the Tyrone County hospital which cared for those injured in the Omagh bomb in August 1998. . Report by Habiba Khanom.
- published: 13 Jun 2018
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1:48:46
WATCH | Wednesday's #OTBAM - The Omagh Bombings, 20 years on | Davy Fitz | Richie Bennis on Limerick
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Welcome to Wednesday's OTB AM - this morning we're bringing you a special feature on the Omagh bombings of 1998 - it's 20 years to the day since 29 people were ...
Welcome to Wednesday's OTB AM - this morning we're bringing you a special feature on the Omagh bombings of 1998 - it's 20 years to the day since 29 people were killed in the town, the single deadliest incident in The Troubles.
Last week we traveled to Omagh to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed when the town was bombed 20 years ago today.
Niall McSorley, Karl Quinn and Paddy Logue tell us their stories this morning.
Outside of that, we're bringing you through all the sports pages and looking back at the newspaper stories from 1973...because; Richie Bennis joins us to talk Limerick - from playing and winning their last All-Ireland 45 years ago, to managing the team in 2007. He's seen it all!
Davy Fitzgerald speaks about staying on with the Wexford hurlers, Keith Higgins on the Mayo footballers in 2019 - both were speaking to Máire Treasa at the Hurling for Cancer charity match in Newbridge.
There's all of that and much more - get in touch with the show in the comments, or tweet us at @offtheball. OTB AM is brought to you every morning by Screwfix Ireland.
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Welcome to Wednesday's OTB AM - this morning we're bringing you a special feature on the Omagh bombings of 1998 - it's 20 years to the day since 29 people were killed in the town, the single deadliest incident in The Troubles.
Last week we traveled to Omagh to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed when the town was bombed 20 years ago today.
Niall McSorley, Karl Quinn and Paddy Logue tell us their stories this morning.
Outside of that, we're bringing you through all the sports pages and looking back at the newspaper stories from 1973...because; Richie Bennis joins us to talk Limerick - from playing and winning their last All-Ireland 45 years ago, to managing the team in 2007. He's seen it all!
Davy Fitzgerald speaks about staying on with the Wexford hurlers, Keith Higgins on the Mayo footballers in 2019 - both were speaking to Máire Treasa at the Hurling for Cancer charity match in Newbridge.
There's all of that and much more - get in touch with the show in the comments, or tweet us at @offtheball. OTB AM is brought to you every morning by Screwfix Ireland.
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3:09
N. IRELAND: IRISH PRESIDENT MARY MCALEESE VISITS OMAGH
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(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's...
(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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4:01
IRELAND: FUNERAL OF 3 YOUNGSTERS KILLED IN OMAGH BOMBING
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(19 Aug 1998) Natural Sound
Thousands of mourners in the seaside town of Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland have attended the funeral service for three you...
(19 Aug 1998) Natural Sound
Thousands of mourners in the seaside town of Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland have attended the funeral service for three young victims of the Omagh bombing.
They were joined by Irish President Mary McAleese, Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
James Barker and Sean McLoughlin, who were both 12 years old, and Oran Doherty, who was 8, were killed in Saturday's terrorist blast in Omgah.
In Northern Ireland, Mary Grimes, whose daughter and granddaughter were the first buried victims, and 17-year-old Brenda Logue were ladi to rest.
Irish President Mary McAleese was among the mourners paying their respects to the family of the three young boys killed in Saturday's Omagh bombing.
She visited the family home of one of the victims to pay a private tribute to the youngsters and offer comfort grieving family and friends.
McAleese had recently received a poem about the hopes for peace in Northern Ireland written by a small group of schoolchildren, including Sean McLoughlin, one of the young victims.
Now, the words of Sean's poem which asked for opponents to peace not to 'shatter our dream' seem all the more poignant as his family prepared to lay him to rest.
Hundreds of family, friends and classmates of the young victims waited on the street outside.
Sean McLoughlin and James Barker, both 12, and eight year old Oran Doherty were on a day trip to Omagh when they were caught in the horrific blast which killed 28 people.
The three had gone to Omagh with a group of Spanish exchange students to visit a historical park in the area.
More than 200 others were also injured in the blast.
The Republican splinter group, the 'Real I-R-A,' has admitted responsibility for the bombing.
But their apologies for the civilians killed in the blast have done little to ease the pain of these people as they wound their way through the grey, rain swept streets.
The silence was broken only by the cries of despair, sadness and anger as they followed the final journey of the three young innocent victims.
Among the mourners to join the funeral cortege were Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.
The tiny coffins were carried in a sea of mourners on the sombre walk to St. Mary's Catholic Church.
The First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly Minister David Trimble joined President McAleese and others at the service.
Not all the mourners were able to fit into the tiny church, and many listened to the service led by Bishop Seamus Hearty from outside.
It was the second day in a string of funerals to take place for those who lost their lives in the blast.
Afterwards, distraught family members followed silently behind the hearses, which were decorated with flowers and footballs in memory of the young boys.
Little Oran Doherty's coffin was draped with the green-and-white banner of the soccer team he loved, Glasgow Celtic.
Two more of those victims were also buried in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
In Beragh, to the southeast of Omagh, funeral services were held for Mary Grimes, who, at 65 years old, was the oldest victim in the attack.
Three generations of women within her family were killed by the terrorist explosion.
On Tuesday, her 30-year-old pregnant daughter Avril Monaghan and 18-month-old granddaughter were the first of Omagh's dead to be buried.
Mourners also gathered in Loughmacrory for the funeral for 17-year-old Brenda Logue.
Family and friends gathered at St. Mary's church to remember her.
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Thousands of mourners in the seaside town of Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland have attended the funeral service for three young victims of the Omagh bombing.
They were joined by Irish President Mary McAleese, Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
James Barker and Sean McLoughlin, who were both 12 years old, and Oran Doherty, who was 8, were killed in Saturday's terrorist blast in Omgah.
In Northern Ireland, Mary Grimes, whose daughter and granddaughter were the first buried victims, and 17-year-old Brenda Logue were ladi to rest.
Irish President Mary McAleese was among the mourners paying their respects to the family of the three young boys killed in Saturday's Omagh bombing.
She visited the family home of one of the victims to pay a private tribute to the youngsters and offer comfort grieving family and friends.
McAleese had recently received a poem about the hopes for peace in Northern Ireland written by a small group of schoolchildren, including Sean McLoughlin, one of the young victims.
Now, the words of Sean's poem which asked for opponents to peace not to 'shatter our dream' seem all the more poignant as his family prepared to lay him to rest.
Hundreds of family, friends and classmates of the young victims waited on the street outside.
Sean McLoughlin and James Barker, both 12, and eight year old Oran Doherty were on a day trip to Omagh when they were caught in the horrific blast which killed 28 people.
The three had gone to Omagh with a group of Spanish exchange students to visit a historical park in the area.
More than 200 others were also injured in the blast.
The Republican splinter group, the 'Real I-R-A,' has admitted responsibility for the bombing.
But their apologies for the civilians killed in the blast have done little to ease the pain of these people as they wound their way through the grey, rain swept streets.
The silence was broken only by the cries of despair, sadness and anger as they followed the final journey of the three young innocent victims.
Among the mourners to join the funeral cortege were Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.
The tiny coffins were carried in a sea of mourners on the sombre walk to St. Mary's Catholic Church.
The First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly Minister David Trimble joined President McAleese and others at the service.
Not all the mourners were able to fit into the tiny church, and many listened to the service led by Bishop Seamus Hearty from outside.
It was the second day in a string of funerals to take place for those who lost their lives in the blast.
Afterwards, distraught family members followed silently behind the hearses, which were decorated with flowers and footballs in memory of the young boys.
Little Oran Doherty's coffin was draped with the green-and-white banner of the soccer team he loved, Glasgow Celtic.
Two more of those victims were also buried in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
In Beragh, to the southeast of Omagh, funeral services were held for Mary Grimes, who, at 65 years old, was the oldest victim in the attack.
Three generations of women within her family were killed by the terrorist explosion.
On Tuesday, her 30-year-old pregnant daughter Avril Monaghan and 18-month-old granddaughter were the first of Omagh's dead to be buried.
Mourners also gathered in Loughmacrory for the funeral for 17-year-old Brenda Logue.
Family and friends gathered at St. Mary's church to remember her.
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The Omagh Bomb: 20 years on | OTB Special
20 years ago today a bomb in Omagh killed 29 people - including a woman carrying twins.
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20 years ago today a bomb in Omagh killed 29 people - including a woman carrying twins.
Last week we travelled to the town to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed in different ways on that day
Massive thanks to Niall McSorley, Paddy Quinn and Karl Logue for being generous with their time and telling their stories and thanks to Joe McMahon for helping to make that piece happen.
Interviews/Story by Shane Stapleton
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N. IRELAND: OMAGH: AT LEAST 26 KILLED IN CAR BOMB BLAST
(15 Aug 1998) English/Nat
A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and inju...
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A devastating car bomb has killed at least 26 people and injured around 100 in a crowded market town in Northern Ireland.
Scores of people were injured on Saturday in one of the worst atrocities in three decades of conflict in the British-ruled province.
The blast shattered a busy shopping street in Omagh, a religiously mixed town 70 miles (110 kilometres) west of Belfast.
The high number of casualties has been blamed on a phoned warning 40 minutes before the blast that encouraged police to evacuate people in the wrong direction.
One minute a busy market street, the next a scene of tragedy.
Soldiers and police quickly cordoned off the bomb site in Omagh, as emergency vehicles screamed past carrying wounded.
Witnesses said there were bodies and body parts strewn across the bomb site.
Water from burst pipes flowed over the carnage as blood-streaked survivors searched frantically for friends and family.
The bomb exploded some 20 minutes after police began evacuating civilians from where the bomb was thought to be placed.
In fact, the blast caught the crowd which was gathering several hundred yards (metres) away near pubs, shops and a supermarket.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Q: What did you see? What greeted you when you arrived on the scene?
"Oh, absolute carnage. Absolute carnage. I like many others had to abandon our car because we were not able to negotiate any further. So we parked the cars. Everyone ran to the area where the bomb had exploded. It was just a battlefield, if one could compare it, with bodies lying -- scores of injured, seriously injured. People screaming, people running, looking for their children, looking for their mothers. I've never seen devastation like it."
SUPERCAPTION: Paddy McGowan, Independent Community Councillor
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The sad thing is that the police were given a warning about a half an hour before the bomb went off. As I understand it, they thought it was to be in High Street opposite the Court House. However, 200 yards a way down on Market Street is where the actual bomb took place. That's where people actually were congregating towards to try to get away from where the bomb was supposed to be and I think that has added to the whole casualty situation here."
SUPERCAPTION: Joe Byrne, SDLP Councillor and local legislator
Before rescue squads could arrive on the scene, dozens of passers by helped the rescue effort, ferrying injured to safer ground and helping children find their parents.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"And I heard the explosion and I ran to see if I could help people. The devastation was unbelievable and the people didn't deserve this trauma. They didn't deserve it. They don't deserve it anywhere. But it was just unbelievable.
Q: Did you help any people?
"Yes, we did as much as we could. But there were so many casualties and so many dead and doctors were on the scene as quick as you could. And everybody was so helpful offering their cars and their services. There was a lot of people you couldn't help. You know, there was one man I tried to help and he just had no face. It was just blown away. There's nothing more I can say. I'm sorry."
SUPERCAPTION: Anne Collin, local taxi driver
Prime Minister Tony Blair called it "an appalling act of savagery and evil by people who are determined, whatever the cost to innocent people, to wreck the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland."
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern pledged to "ruthlessly suppress" terrorist organisations that opposed the wish for peace.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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The Omagh bombing explained: 20 years on and no convictions
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It's 20 years to the day since the single worst atrocity suffered by Northern Ireland during The Troubles. The Omagh bombing claimed 29 lives in 1998. Report by Louee Dessent-Jackson.
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N. IRELAND: OMAGH: MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR BOMB VICTIMS
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Tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic fell silent on Saturday in memory of the 28 killed in Northern Ireland's deadliest terrorist attack.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered where the car bomb was detonated in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh.
Hours earlier the Republican group the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), announced a ceasefire.
More than 20-thousand Protestants and Catholics gathered outside the courthouse in the centre of Omagh on Saturday to mourn the dead and injured from last week's car bomb.
Relatives of those killed stood on the steps of the courthouse alongside many of Northern Ireland's political leaders.
The solemn service was also attended by Irish and British political leaders.
Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, Irish President Mary McAleese and Britain's Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott were among those in attendance.
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness also stood among the grieving relatives.
Similar services were held on both sides of the Irish border.
Religious and community leaders spoke of the pain and suffering that has been left behind.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We declare that evil will not triumph. The pain and the loss will remain. But our community will not be torn apart."
SUPER CAPTION: Dr Brendan McCarthy, Pastor of Omagh Community Church
And at 3-10 p-m local time, people observed a minute's silence - the same time a week ago the bomb exploded.
The Republican splinter group, the Real I-R-A, have admitted planting the bomb that killed 28 and wounded more than 330.
They have since declared a ceasefire.
In response to the bombing, the British and Irish governments have vowed to crush any outlawed paramilitary groups that refuse to adhere to the multiparty agreement, which voters in both parts of Ireland ratified in May.
Tributes were also read in Spanish - in memory of the two Spanish tourists who were killed the others in their party who were injured.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"Father of all mercy, we thank you for the compassion you show and the compassion those at the leisure centre and in the social and health services, the priest and all the voluntary workers in the community have shown. Your mercy and work in our name has helped us to express similar compassion among ourselves and to help us bare our own cross of pain. May those who have shown and given such mercy, themselves receive the same compassion one-hundred times over, when they themselves need it."
SUPER CAPTION: Community Member
The service was held hours after another Republican group, the Irish National Liberation Army (I-N-L-A), also declared a ceasefire.
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Prince Charles visits Omagh Hospital in Northern Ireland
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Prince Charles has arrived in Omagh on the second day of his visit to Northern Ireland. He arrived by helicopter at the Omagh Hospital and Community Care Complex. The new complex opened in 2017 and replaced the Tyrone County hospital which cared for those injured in the Omagh bomb in August 1998. . Report by Habiba Khanom.
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WATCH | Wednesday's #OTBAM - The Omagh Bombings, 20 years on | Davy Fitz | Richie Bennis on Limerick
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Welcome to Wednesday's OTB AM - this morning we're bringing you a special feature on the Omagh bombings of 1998 - it's 20 years to the day since 29 people were killed in the town, the single deadliest incident in The Troubles.
Last week we traveled to Omagh to speak to three GAA-men whose lives changed when the town was bombed 20 years ago today.
Niall McSorley, Karl Quinn and Paddy Logue tell us their stories this morning.
Outside of that, we're bringing you through all the sports pages and looking back at the newspaper stories from 1973...because; Richie Bennis joins us to talk Limerick - from playing and winning their last All-Ireland 45 years ago, to managing the team in 2007. He's seen it all!
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N. IRELAND: IRISH PRESIDENT MARY MCALEESE VISITS OMAGH
(16 Aug 1998) English/Nat
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Irish President Mary McAleese arrived in Omagh on Sunday to visit the friends and family of those injured or killed in yesterday's bomb blast which claimed the lives of 28 people.
The Irish president arrived at the Omagh leisure complex just minutes after Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness had entered the building.
The car bomb was the single most devastating terrorist attack in the last thirty years of Northern Ireland's bloody history, and the finger is being pointed at a dissident republican group opposed to the Good Friday agreement.
Mary McAleese saw for herself the extent of the devastation caused by yesterday's bomb that ripped through the busy high street in Omagh.
The clean up operation has started in earnest to clear up the debris from the blast that left 28 people dead and injured over 220.
Northern Irish police have already set up a task force to hunt down the bombers, who struck on the 29th anniversary of the first deployment of British troops on the streets of Northern Ireland.
The President expressed her horror at the bombing which she said occurred in spite of a majority vote for peace and diplomacy and a rejection of violence.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To talk about them, these are...I said just a moment ago on another radio programme that if they are capable of what they accomplished yesterday I think it's important for all of us to understand that they are capable of anything. These are people...there are no markers, try and measure them against standards of human decency, they are off the scale, they are off the Richter scale, and so I don't know what they are capable of. Omagh yesterday gives me some chilling, absolutely terrifying insight into what they are capable of, all I do know is they absolutely have to be stopped, they have to be stopped now, I don't know what they are planning for tomorrow, any more than you do Dennis, but it scares me what they could be planning, and they are planning in the teeth of a country North and South which committed itself to consensus based politics, committed itself to a decent way forward, which said in the referendum just gone past that we were going to try to work together in partnership, to honour each other, to respect each other to find a new decent way of living together, and these people whoever they are, whatever their number yesterday in the most callous and brutal way, they gave us their answer, now I think we have to give them their answer by stopping them. There are people who know who they are and the simplest way of stopping them is for those people to surrender their names to the authorities."
SUPER CAPTION: Mary McAleese, Irish President
She then went on to visit friends and family of those killed or injured who are gathered inside the town's leisure complex awaiting news of their loved ones from the various hospitals in the area.
Earlier the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams visited the scene and said he unreservedly condemned the terrorist bombing and urged people to move on and keep alive their hopes for real peace.
In the past Adams has categorically refused to condemn violence by the I-R-A or any other republican group.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein.
Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein's chief negotiator also paid a visit to the leisure complex.
No group has yet claimed responsibility though it's thought that a dissident republican group planted the bomb in order to wreck the Good Friday peace agreement that was to end 30 years of sectarian strife in the province.
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IRELAND: FUNERAL OF 3 YOUNGSTERS KILLED IN OMAGH BOMBING
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Thousands of mourners in the seaside town of Buncrana in the Republic of Ireland have attended the funeral service for three young victims of the Omagh bombing.
They were joined by Irish President Mary McAleese, Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble and Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
James Barker and Sean McLoughlin, who were both 12 years old, and Oran Doherty, who was 8, were killed in Saturday's terrorist blast in Omgah.
In Northern Ireland, Mary Grimes, whose daughter and granddaughter were the first buried victims, and 17-year-old Brenda Logue were ladi to rest.
Irish President Mary McAleese was among the mourners paying their respects to the family of the three young boys killed in Saturday's Omagh bombing.
She visited the family home of one of the victims to pay a private tribute to the youngsters and offer comfort grieving family and friends.
McAleese had recently received a poem about the hopes for peace in Northern Ireland written by a small group of schoolchildren, including Sean McLoughlin, one of the young victims.
Now, the words of Sean's poem which asked for opponents to peace not to 'shatter our dream' seem all the more poignant as his family prepared to lay him to rest.
Hundreds of family, friends and classmates of the young victims waited on the street outside.
Sean McLoughlin and James Barker, both 12, and eight year old Oran Doherty were on a day trip to Omagh when they were caught in the horrific blast which killed 28 people.
The three had gone to Omagh with a group of Spanish exchange students to visit a historical park in the area.
More than 200 others were also injured in the blast.
The Republican splinter group, the 'Real I-R-A,' has admitted responsibility for the bombing.
But their apologies for the civilians killed in the blast have done little to ease the pain of these people as they wound their way through the grey, rain swept streets.
The silence was broken only by the cries of despair, sadness and anger as they followed the final journey of the three young innocent victims.
Among the mourners to join the funeral cortege were Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.
The tiny coffins were carried in a sea of mourners on the sombre walk to St. Mary's Catholic Church.
The First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly Minister David Trimble joined President McAleese and others at the service.
Not all the mourners were able to fit into the tiny church, and many listened to the service led by Bishop Seamus Hearty from outside.
It was the second day in a string of funerals to take place for those who lost their lives in the blast.
Afterwards, distraught family members followed silently behind the hearses, which were decorated with flowers and footballs in memory of the young boys.
Little Oran Doherty's coffin was draped with the green-and-white banner of the soccer team he loved, Glasgow Celtic.
Two more of those victims were also buried in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
In Beragh, to the southeast of Omagh, funeral services were held for Mary Grimes, who, at 65 years old, was the oldest victim in the attack.
Three generations of women within her family were killed by the terrorist explosion.
On Tuesday, her 30-year-old pregnant daughter Avril Monaghan and 18-month-old granddaughter were the first of Omagh's dead to be buried.
Mourners also gathered in Loughmacrory for the funeral for 17-year-old Brenda Logue.
Family and friends gathered at St. Mary's church to remember her.
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Four Real IRA Members Found Liable For Omagh Bombing
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Four members of the Real IRA have been found liable for the Omagh bombing, in which 29 people died. The civil case was brought by relatives of some of the victims. Vicki Hawthorne reports.
Omagh
Coordinates: 54°35′N 7°17′W / 54.59°N 7.29°W / 54.59; -7.29
Omagh (/ˈoʊmə/ or /ˈoʊmɑː/; Irish pronunciation: [ˈomæ] – from Irish: an Ómaigh, meaning "the virgin plain" [ənˠ ˈoːmˠəi]) is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. Northern Ireland's capital city Belfast is 68 miles (109.5 km) to the east of Omagh, and Derry is 34 miles (55 km) to the north. The closest public air links to the town are situated at these cities. Enniskillen Airport, a small air strip, lies 24 miles/38.5 km to the southwest of Omagh.
The town has a population of 21,297, and the district, which is the largest in County Tyrone, had a population of 51,356 at the 2011 Census. Omagh contains the headquarters of Omagh District Council and the Western Education and Library Board, and also houses offices for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at Sperrin House, the Department for Regional Development and the Northern Ireland Roads Service at the Tyrone County Hall and the Northern Ireland Land & Property Services at Boaz House. The town is twinned with L'Haÿ-les-Roses, a town in the suburbs of Paris, France.
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