Police officers on duty on the day of the Omagh bombing have told the inquiry into the atrocity how they wrapped the dead in sheets and blankets and laid them out of sight in a nearby alleyway as ...

Emergency service workers have been giving evidence to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, describing scenes which “should only have been seen in a movie”. Twenty-nine people, including a woman ...

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry expects to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Government in March over the disclosure of potentially relevant material held by the State. At the conclusion of a ...

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 ...

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry is taking place at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh (Liam McBurney/PA) The centre of Omagh was turned into a “war zone” after a Real IRA bomb exploded in 1998 ...

The senior police officer in charge of Omagh at the time of the 1998 bombing has told how he tried to cope with the aftermath of the bomb while trying to console his son whose girlfriend had been ...

Police are investigating after a teenage girl was assaulted at a bus depot in Omagh. The Omagh bombing public inquiry has been hearing tributes to those killed in the 1998 Real IRA car bomb.

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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 ...

A fireman who rushed to help people in the aftermath of the Omagh bombing has told the inquiry that the scene reminded him of an iconic image of the Vietnam War. The final week of the ...

A paramedic who responded to the Omagh bombing has recalled the shock of not being able to identify the heads or feet of victims in body bags following the massacre. Richard Quigley told the Omagh ...