Published 6 days ago • loading... • Updated 5 days ago

Omagh 'most difficult duty' of career - police officer

Summary

The senior police officer in charge of Omagh at the time of the 1998 bombing has told how he tried to cope with the aftermath of the bomb while trying to console his son whose girlfriend had been murdered in the blast.

6 Articles

All

Left

Center

Right

RTÉ

Omagh inquiry to hear evidence from police officers

The inquiry into the Omagh bombing will hear from a number of police officers who were on the ground on the day of the 1998 dissident republican atrocity that killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.

5 days ago·Ireland

Read Full Article

Irish Mirror

Firefighter says he has never told his wife what he saw on day of Omagh bombing

Paddy Quinn told the Omagh bombing inquiry that he and his colleagues did not speak much to each other after they had attended the explosion

6 days ago·Ireland

Read Full Article

BBC News

Omagh bomb firefighter describes carnage to inquiry

A firefighter who attended the scene of the Omagh bomb has likened its aftermath to an image of the Vietnam War.

6 days ago·United Kingdom

Read Full Article

Irish Times

‘We used all the bags we had’: paramedic describes grim scene in wake of Omagh bombing

Bodies brought to temporary morgue, inquiry into attack that killed 31 people hears

6 days ago·Dublin, Ireland

Read Full Article

perspectivemedia.com

Officers faced ‘smell of death’ following Omagh bombing

The duty sergeant at the Omagh police station at the time of the bombing has appeared before an inquiry into the blast. There was a “smell of death” in the immediate aftermath of the Omagh bombing, a police officer who responded to the blast has recalled. The Omagh Bombing Inquiry, being held at the Strule Arts Centre, heard evidence from some of the emergency responders who attended the scene of the atrocity in August 1998. Twenty-nine people, …

5 days ago

Read Full Article