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Omagh bombing - 20 years ago today

  • 15-08-2018 3:22pm
    #1
    justice league
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    10 minutes ago from this post.

    RIP 29.


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  • #2
    Lollipops23
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    Can't believe it's 20 years. I remember it so vividly.

    RIP.


  • #3
    justice league
    Site Banned Posts: 2 ✭justice league


    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    Can't believe it's 20 years. I remember it so vividly.

    RIP.

    There's a reflective service in the town ATM.

    I also can't believe it's 20 years.


  • #4
    punisher5112
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    Hope the person or persons that carried this sick act out are either dead or suffering a horrible illness and then death.

    Sad for all the family and friends.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I drove through the town that morning with my family on our way to our holidays. A sad day for this country.


  • #6
    The_Kew_Tour
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    The victims here.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45112942


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  • #7
    Lollipops23
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    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Sad for all the family and friends.

    A good friend of mine's uncle was leaning against the car when it exploded. How a family ever moves on from that is beyond me.


  • #8
    shakeitoff
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    What were they actually hoping to achieve from this? Like I get why Al-Queda do what they do? I get why ISIS do what they do. I can see why ETA would bomb Madrid but this never made sense to me at all. Omagh is a majority Catholic and presumably pro-Irish town. Bizarre.


  • #9
    Lux23
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    shakeitoff wrote: »
    What were they actually hoping to achieve from this? Like I get why Al-Queda do what they do? I get why ISIS do what they do. I can see why ETA would bomb Madrid but this never made sense to me at all. Omagh is a majority Catholic and presumably pro-Irish town. Bizarre.

    Nothing. They wanted to cause as much mayhem and death as possible to send a message that they didn't agree with the Good Friday Agreement. I think it galvanised people who wanted peace though so had the opposite effect.


  • #10
    AtomicHorror
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    shakeitoff wrote: »
    What were they actually hoping to achieve from this? Like I get why Al-Queda do what they do? I get why ISIS do what they do. I can see why ETA would bomb Madrid but this never made sense to me at all. Omagh is a majority Catholic and presumably pro-Irish town. Bizarre.

    In short, it was because they were not merely cruel and reckless, but also completely incompetent.


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
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    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    The victims here.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45112942

    Everyone who has ever professed support for murdering terrorist scum of any persuasion should be made read that aloud.

    I remember the panic around Buncrana that night, mobile phones were scarce enough and reception was scarcer, I think there was only about twenty of the fifty five that came back on the bus.

    RIP


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  • #12
    Laois_Man
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    The image I always think of in relation to Omagh, the photograph taken seconds before the red car blew up, with some people from this photograph killed, and the photographer!

    Omagh_imminent.jpg


  • #13
    JupiterKid
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    A despicable and horrific atrocity. Omagh had largely escaped the violence of the Troubles untik this bombing. It was the work of the dissident republicans lookung to destroy the Good Friday Agreement. It backired big time.

    My cousin was very lucky. He was in Omagh that day and narrowly missed the explosion. 29 innocent people were not.


  • #14
    cbyrd
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    They made a film about it about tenish (could be a lot more) years ago. They used the street in Navan where our shop is. Changed our shop front and we had to stand around out of view of our window. On the Sunday of filming, they set up the aftermath. It was chilling and very upsetting. . That was just a movie set.


  • #15
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    cbyrd wrote: »
    They made a film about it about tenish (could be a lot more) years ago. They used the street in Navan where our shop is. Changed our shop front and we had to stand around out of view of our window. On the Sunday of filming, they set up the aftermath. It was chilling and very upsetting. . That was just a movie set.

    Not easy watching!



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