Ten years ago today the so-called Real IRA planted a car bomb in Omagh which killed 29 and injured a further 220 others. It was the worst single atrocity during the last troubles. The victims were young and old; Catholic, Protestant and Mormon, British, Irish and Spanish. One family lost three generations.
The victims
Olive Hawkes, 60, Omagh
Jolene Marlow, 17, Omagh
Deborah Cartwright, 20, Omagh
Mary Grimes, 65, Beragh, County Tyrone
Avril Monaghan, 30, Aughadarna, County Tyrone (Daughter of Mary Grimes)
Avril Monaghan's baby daughter, Maura,
18 months, Aughadarna, County Tyrone
Sean McLaughlin, 12, Buncrana
James Barker, 12, Buncrana
Oran Doherty, 8, Buncrana
Geraldine Breslin, 43, Omagh
Brenda Logue, 17, Carrickmore
Philomena Skelton, 49, Drumquin
Gareth Conway, 18, Carrickmore
Brenda Devine, 20 months, Donemana
Lorraine Wilson, 15, Omagh
Samantha McFarland, 17, Omagh
Julia Hughes, 21, Omagh
Elizabeth Rush, 57, Omagh
Ricio Abad Ramos, 23, Madrid, Spain
Fernando Blasco Baselga, 12, Madrid, Spain
Esther Gibson, 36, Beragh
Anne McCombe, 48, Omagh
Veda Short, 46, Gortaclare
Aiden Gallagher, 21, Omagh
Alan Radford, 16, Omagh
Fred White, 60, Omagh
His son Brien White, 26, Omagh
Brian McCrory, 54, Omagh
Sean McGrath, 61, Omagh.
They died in a murderous attempt to derail the peace process in Northern Ireland. They failed. For those who believe that this sort of act represents some form of justice I hope you choke on your perverted ideologies. You are vermin.
6 comments:
I always add two to the number of victims of Omagh as I think the 7-month old unborn twins of Avril Monaghan should be counted.
That is quite reasonable in my view Heather
How terrible, there is no way this can be seen as justice Jams.
SOme would nunyaa but they are.. noI won't use the c word as it is an insult to that part of a woman.
I had one piece of shit who tried to say that 7/7 was justice but he ranks lower that slime mould in my view.
jams, I read a book last year or maybe the year before by Mary Gordon called Pearl. It referenced the Omagh bombing and was about
"On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics–nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr herself?
Shaken by this mystery, Maria and her childhood friend (and Pearl’s surrogate father), Joseph Kasperman, both rush to Pearl’s side. As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds among them, she takes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland’s tragic history. Pearl is a grand and emotionally daring novel of ideas, told with the tension of a thriller."
I thought it might me something you'd like to read. :)
Thanks Mary that sounds like a great read.
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