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

Shaun McLaughlin was one of three boys from Buncrana, Co Donegal who died.

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2025

Sunday school teacher killed in Omagh bomb lived life of ‘kindness and love’

A tribute written by Esther Gibson’s four younger sisters was read to public inquiry into the 1998 bombing on Monday.

Evening Standard · Feb 3, 2025

Former Irish cabinet minister voices concern over lack of parallel Omagh inquiry

Charlie Flanagan questioned whether all key information held in the Republic of Ireland would be made available to the UK inquiry into the bombing.

Evening Standard · Feb 2, 2025

Family that lost three generations in Omagh bomb ‘hope no others suffer’

Mary Grimes, her daughter Avril Monaghan, and her granddaughter Maura died in the atrocity.

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

Second youngest victim of Omagh bomb ‘was due to be flower girl’

Breda Devine was killed in the dissident republican bomb attack in the Co Tyrone town in 1998.

The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025

Teenage boy killed in Omagh bomb ‘radiated light’, says sister

Claire Hayes recalled her brother Alan Radford, 16, to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry on Wednesday.

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

Concern expressed that Omagh Bombing Inquiry won’t uncover full truth

Claire Hayes, whose brother Alan Radford was killed in the blast, said the Irish Government should be a full participant.

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

Omagh bombing: why a public inquiry is being held more than 25 years after the atrocity

The 1998 Good Friday agreement is commonly seen to have ended what were euphemistically termed “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland. However, just four months after the peace accord was signed, an attack on the town of Omagh resulted in the greatest loss of life in any single incident of the…

The Conversation · Jan 28, 2025

Tourists, friends, flower girl to-be and ‘gentle giant’ father among Omagh dead

An inquiry into the bombing in 1998 also heard how a then teenager described it as their ‘final loss of innocence’.

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2025

Omagh inquiry ‘allowing us to close wound that has been open for 26 years’

The sister of a young Spanish woman killed in the 1998 atrocity said it was the only support they had had in many years.

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2025