Even through the sirens, the smoke, the shock - the world seemed to stand still. So recalled Jim Sharkey who spoke to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry about the aftermath of the deadliest attack in the ...

There has been political condemnation after threatening graffiti appeared in Omagh. The graffiti scrawled on a wall on the ...

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 ...

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry is examining whether the single worst atrocity of the Troubles could have been prevented Twenty-nine people, including a woman expecting twins, were murdered in the Real ...

Michael Gallagher says he soon returned home and heard sirens and an Army helicopter, before a news flash came on the TV. "The news flash said there was a huge explosion in Omagh town centre and ...

A car bomb attack on the BBC Television Centre could be linked to the Panorama report into the Omagh bombing, a terrorism expert suggested today. Professor Paul Wilkinson, from St Andrew's ...

A survivor of the Omagh bombing has told an inquiry how the power of the explosion left a crater in the middle of the street, with severely injured victims inside it. David McSwiggan told the Omagh ...

The government expects to agree a memorandum of understanding with the Omagh Bombing Inquiry in the coming weeks ... whether the atrocity carried out by the Real IRA in the Co Tyrone town in August ...

Elected representatives should avoid politicising the Omagh Bombing Inquiry amid calls for the Irish government to hold a parallel probe into the atrocity, a QUB academic has said.

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