This article remembers the victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, detailing their lives and the impact of the tragedy on their families.
It came less than three months after the people of Northern Ireland had voted yes to the Good Friday Agreement.In June 2009, four men were held responsible for it in a civil case brought by the families of those killed.was described as a "happy boy with an infectious smile" - he was a 12-year-old student at Buncrana Primary School and was killed while on a school trip.
She and the students had been shopping in Omagh as part of an outing when she was killed by the bomb. Fernando's sister Donna Marie was also a student on the excursion and suffered serious facial injuries in the explosion.was due to start a textile design degree in Manchester a month later. Breda, the second-youngest victim of the bomb, was due to be the flower girl at the wedding of her uncle and his fiancée.
was celebrating her 66th birthday when she was killed alongside her daughter Avril and granddaughter Maura. Police had to take fingerprints from a crane at the family's business in order to identify the 54 year old's body.
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