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The bomb exploded in Omagh town centre on a busy Saturday afternoon in 1998 [PA/ Paul McErlane] ... the international peace deal helped to bring an end to 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland ...
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Julian Fowler - BBC News NI south west reporter. January 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM. ... For the generation born since 1998, what happened in Omagh is a part of Northern Ireland's troubled history.
On the evening of 22 February 2023, two gunmen shot and wounded off-duty Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in Omagh, Northern Ireland. The gunmen are believed to have been linked to the New Irish Republican Army.
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [6] It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year.
Northern Ireland's capital city, Belfast, is 68 miles (109.5 km) to the east of Omagh, and Derry is 34 miles (55 km) to the north. The town had a population of 20,458 at the 2021 Census . [ 5 ] At the time of 2011 Census the former district council , which was the largest in County Tyrone , had a population of 51,356. [ 6 ]
A number of candlelit vigils have been held to remember women who have been violently killed in Northern Ireland. Organised by Women's Aid groups across NI, vigils were held in Londonderry, Omagh ...
Murphy was arrested by the Gardaí on 21 February 1999 for questioning under anti-terrorist legislation. On 24 February, Murphy became the first person charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, when he appeared before Dublin's Special Criminal Court and was charged with conspiring to cause an explosion under the terms of Ireland's Offences Against the State Act, between 13 and 16 August 1998.