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Omagh Memorial Garden

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Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Omagh Memorial Garden
Hours:
Sunday12am - 12am
Monday12am - 12am
Tuesday12am - 12am
Wednesday12am - 12am
Thursday12am - 12am
Friday12am - 12am
Saturday12am - 12am


The Omagh bombing was a car bomb terrorist attack on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was carried out by a group calling themselves the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement. The bombing killed 29 people and injured some 220 others, making it the deadliest single incident of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Telephoned warnings had been sent almost 40 minutes beforehand, but were inaccurate, and police had inadvertently moved people toward the bomb.The bombing caused outrage both locally and internationally, spurred on the Northern Ireland peace process, and dealt a severe blow to the dissident Irish republican campaign. The Real IRA denied that the bomb was intended to kill civilians and apologised; shortly after, the group declared a ceasefire. The victims included people of many backgrounds and ages: Protestants, Catholics, six teenagers, six children, a mother pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists, and others on a day trip from the Republic of Ireland. Both unionists and Irish nationalists were killed and injured. As a result of the bombing, new anti-terrorism laws were swiftly instated by both the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It has been alleged that the British, Irish, and US intelligence agencies had information which could have prevented the bombing, most of which came from double agents inside the Real IRA, but this information was not given to the Royal Ulster Constabulary . In 2008 it was revealed that British intelligence agency GCHQ was monitoring conversations between the bombers as the bomb was being driven into Omagh.A 2001 report by the Police Ombudsman said that the RUC Special Branch failed to act on prior warnings and slammed the RUC's investigation of the bombing. Police have obtained circumstantial and coincidental evidence against some suspects, but have not come up with enough to convict anyone of the bombing. Colm Murphy was tried, convicted, and then released after it was revealed that the Gardaí forged interview notes used in the case. Murphy's nephew Sean Hoey was also tried but found not guilty. In June 2009, the victims' families won a £1.6 million civil action against four defendants. In 2014, Seamus Daly was charged with the murder of 29 people; however, the case against him was withdrawn in 2016.
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