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Families meet Inquiry chair as search for Omagh bomb justice advances

Family members of the victims met with the chair of Omagh Bombing Inquiry this week for the first time. The 25th anniversary of the bombing - the single biggest atrocity in the history of the Troubles - is on Tuesday. Twenty-nine people, including a ...

09 Aug 2023 at 20:10

Northern Ireland

Young Omagh victim robbed of ‘life full of possibilities’, inquiry hears

A young boy killed in the Omagh bomb was robbed of a “life full of possibilities”, his father has said. Victor Barker also told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he does not believe his daughter has ever recovered from the guilt that her brother James ...

17 Feb 2025 at 18:35

Local News

Young Omagh victim robbed of ‘life full of possibilities’, inquiry hears

17 Feb 2025 at 19:15

National News

Pain of loss never eases, says mother whose 12-year-old son died in Omagh bomb

A mother whose 12-year-old son died in the Omagh bomb believes the pain of his loss will never ease, a public inquiry has heard. Shaun McLaughlin was one of three schoolboys who lived in Buncrana in Co Donegal who were killed in the bombing. ...

03 Feb 2025 at 14:25

National News

Omagh bombing survivor recalls split-second devastation which killed his friends

A survivor of the Omagh bombing has described the split-second devastation that claimed the lives of two of his young friends. Shaun McLaughlin, 12, and Oran Doherty, eight, from Buncrana, Co Donegal as well as bride-to-be Esther Gibson, 36,...

03 Feb 2025 at 17:39

Local News

'The longest and hardest night': Omagh bomb, 25 years on

Lisa Doherty can still see the four sweets. Her brother Oran, 11 years her junior at just eight years old, was a bad traveller. On the morning of August 15, 1998, Oran Doherty and some of his friends from Buncrana went on a trip to the ...

10 Aug 2023 at 09:41

Northern Ireland

Omagh families ‘woefully let down’ by police, father of victim tells inquiry

The families of those bereaved in the Omagh bombing were “woefully let down” by a poor police investigation, the father of a boy killed in the explosion has said. Victor Barker told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that his son James’s life ...

17 Feb 2025 at 17:17

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