"The Omagh bombing was a paramilitary car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Belfast Agreement, on Saturday August 15, 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Twenty-nine people died as a result of the attack and approximately 220 people were injured.
The attack was described by the BBC as "Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity" and by British Prime Minister Tony Blair as an "appalling act of savagery and evil".Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness condemned the attack and the RIRA itself.
The victims included people from many different backgrounds — Protestants, Catholics, a Mormon, nine children, a woman pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists, and other tourists on a day trip from the Republic of Ireland. The nature of the bombing created a strong international and local outcry against the RIRA, which later forced the organization to apologize, and spurred on the Northern Ireland peace process. In 2001, County Louth builder and publican Colm Murphy was convicted in connection to the bombing. He is currently awaiting a Court of Criminal Appeal ordered retrial. Murphy's nephew Sean Hoey of Jonesborough, South Armagh was cleared of all charges relating to the bombing on December 20, 2007 after spending four years in prison on remand. The families of those killed say that they will continue with a High Court civil action for £14 million against the two men and three others whom they say were responsible for the attack."
Thank you for this "remebrance", if thats what you might call this.
