A TIME WE WILL NEVER FORGET
Seven days ago the quiet Ulster town of Omagh was going about its business...savage events changed all that forever
There was blood everywhere - on the walls on the floor, blackened bodies with their clothes ripped off were lying in a sea of blood and there were people walking around in a stunned daze. A nurse describes the scene at the hospital.
To see him lying there with half his head gone and those beautiful green eyes looking out as if he was waiting for me was devastating. I never
realised how green his eyes were. That image will stay with me for the rest of my life. They have taken away my baby, they have robbed him off his future. And for what? Donna Marie Barker who lost her son James, 12.
I hope you can forgive us, remembering the real Ireland not the Real IRA
Father Shane Bradley at a special mass for the Spanish students killed and injured in the blast.
Why you, not me? I did what I could honest." "You were like lambs to the slaughter." "To a dear grandson. Sadly missed by grannie. It should never have happened Messages on flowers left at the scene.
When they killed her, I died with her. I wish I was with her this minute Kenneth Hawkes whose fiancee Esther Gibson died in the blast.
You have asked the question 'Why?' and to that there is absolutely no answer on this side of eternity. The Rev David Kerr at the funeral of 21-year-old Julia Hughes.
What can I say? Please help us all Lord.
Message from Bangor woman Elaine Graham in the Book of Condolence.
The whole place was covered with blood. There was a burst water mains and there were bits of human remains being washed down the street. I'll never, never forget it as long as I live Kevin Skelton whose wife Mena died in the blast.
There was blood everywhere - on the walls on the floor, blackened bodies with their clothes ripped off were lying in a sea of blood and there were people walking around in a stunned daze. A nurse describes the scene at the hospital.
To see him lying there with half his head gone and those beautiful green eyes looking out as if he was waiting for me was devastating. I never
realised how green his eyes were. That image will stay with me for the rest of my life. They have taken away my baby, they have robbed him off his future. And for what? Donna Marie Barker who lost her son James, 12.
I hope you can forgive us, remembering the real Ireland not the Real IRA
Father Shane Bradley at a special mass for the Spanish students killed and injured in the blast.
Why you, not me? I did what I could honest." "You were like lambs to the slaughter." "To a dear grandson. Sadly missed by grannie. It should never have happened Messages on flowers left at the scene.
When they killed her, I died with her. I wish I was with her this minute Kenneth Hawkes whose fiancee Esther Gibson died in the blast.
You have asked the question 'Why?' and to that there is absolutely no answer on this side of eternity. The Rev David Kerr at the funeral of 21-year-old Julia Hughes.
What can I say? Please help us all Lord.
Message from Bangor woman Elaine Graham in the Book of Condolence.
The whole place was covered with blood. There was a burst water mains and there were bits of human remains being washed down the street. I'll never, never forget it as long as I live Kevin Skelton whose wife Mena died in the blast.
Further Information
Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/0193
Published Date: 22-Aug-98
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