CITY PAYS TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO DIED
City pays tribute to those that died
Fergus Black
THE people of Dublin came yesterday to remember the victims of the Omagh bombing.
It was a day not for dignitaries or politicians to come out, but for the capital's citizens to mark the 10th anniversary of the attack.
Up to 500 people filed into Dublin's Pro-Cathedral to attend a simple but moving ceremony.
Lord Mayor Councillor Eibhlin Byrne was the sole dignitary present as she led Dublin's own special tribute to those killed and injured.
Thirty-one candles flickered on the altar, each one representing a life lost in the atrocity.
Beside the simple shrine stood a small pot of yellow and red chrysanthemums, representing the colours of the Spanish flag and symbolising the two Spaniards who were among the victims.
In a sombre moment, Siobhan Flynn and Luke Kearney, from Castleknock, Dublin, both born in the year of the bombing, slowly read out the names of those who died, each one marked by the sounding of a bell.
Celebrant Father John Gilligan spoke of the callous way 29 of their brothers and sisters and two unborn babies were "wiped out of existence" in what was a shocking tragedy.
"And still nobody has been called to account for it. Please God we will never experience an event like this again," he said.
So many families had suffered huge loss and great pain but thankfully we had come a long way since Omagh, he added.
Fergus Black
THE people of Dublin came yesterday to remember the victims of the Omagh bombing.
It was a day not for dignitaries or politicians to come out, but for the capital's citizens to mark the 10th anniversary of the attack.
Up to 500 people filed into Dublin's Pro-Cathedral to attend a simple but moving ceremony.
Lord Mayor Councillor Eibhlin Byrne was the sole dignitary present as she led Dublin's own special tribute to those killed and injured.
Thirty-one candles flickered on the altar, each one representing a life lost in the atrocity.
Beside the simple shrine stood a small pot of yellow and red chrysanthemums, representing the colours of the Spanish flag and symbolising the two Spaniards who were among the victims.
In a sombre moment, Siobhan Flynn and Luke Kearney, from Castleknock, Dublin, both born in the year of the bombing, slowly read out the names of those who died, each one marked by the sounding of a bell.
Celebrant Father John Gilligan spoke of the callous way 29 of their brothers and sisters and two unborn babies were "wiped out of existence" in what was a shocking tragedy.
"And still nobody has been called to account for it. Please God we will never experience an event like this again," he said.
So many families had suffered huge loss and great pain but thankfully we had come a long way since Omagh, he added.
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Publisher: IRISH INDEPENDENT
Ref: II10An/10
Published Date: 16-Aug-08
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