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Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the Omagh bombing

Aug 15, 2021 08:31 By Shannonside News
Today marks the 23rd anniversary of the Omagh bombing
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There have been renewed calls for an inquiry into the Omagh bombing on it's 23rd anniversary today.

29 people were murdered when dissident Republicans set off a car bomb they'd parked in Market Street, County Tyrone.

A woman pregnant with twins and two toddlers were among those who died, while around 232 people were injured by the blast.

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Some suffered life changing wounds like the loss of a limb, or blindness.

However nobody has ever successfully been prosecuted for the worst single atrocity of the Troubles.

Just last month Mr Justice Mark Horner, a Belfast High Court judge, urged Governments on both sides of the border to open investigations.

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His opinion is that there was a 'real prospect' of preventing the attack.

A group who brought the case forward felt as though there was hope this would lead them to finally learning who planned this.

However no such inquiry has been launched by Dublin or by Stormont, and Omagh continues to live under the shadow of the bombing.

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