PEOPLE OF OMAGH HOLD OUT THEIR HANDS TO THE PEOPLE OF MADRID
People of Omagh hold out their hands to the people of Madrid
GRIEF and emotion is still very visible in Madrid, according to the chairman of Omagh District Council.
Allan Rainey travelled to a memorial shrine at Madrid's Atocha station yesterday, where he shared condolences from Omagh with Spain.
A specially-bound book containing messages of sympathy was presented as well as a floral art tribute 'Petals of Hope' created from flowers laid at Omagh's market Street on August 15,1998, where 29 people were killed by a Real IRA car bomb.
Last March, terrorist explosions on Madrid's commuter trains killed more than 200 people and injured 1,400 others.
Mr Rainey said last night that the symbolic gesture would help to let people in Madrid know that the people of Omagh cared about them.
"We hope they will derive some comfort from this," he said. "We hope every little gesture will be a comfort to them."
"All the candles and all the messages, toys, flowers and groups of people still standing around reminded me immediately of Omagh," he said.
Mr Rainey said that, because the trip to Madrid was so evocative of the horror of Omagh, there was nothing easy in dealing with the reality of it all."
GRIEF and emotion is still very visible in Madrid, according to the chairman of Omagh District Council.
Allan Rainey travelled to a memorial shrine at Madrid's Atocha station yesterday, where he shared condolences from Omagh with Spain.
A specially-bound book containing messages of sympathy was presented as well as a floral art tribute 'Petals of Hope' created from flowers laid at Omagh's market Street on August 15,1998, where 29 people were killed by a Real IRA car bomb.
Last March, terrorist explosions on Madrid's commuter trains killed more than 200 people and injured 1,400 others.
Mr Rainey said last night that the symbolic gesture would help to let people in Madrid know that the people of Omagh cared about them.
"We hope they will derive some comfort from this," he said. "We hope every little gesture will be a comfort to them."
"All the candles and all the messages, toys, flowers and groups of people still standing around reminded me immediately of Omagh," he said.
Mr Rainey said that, because the trip to Madrid was so evocative of the horror of Omagh, there was nothing easy in dealing with the reality of it all."
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
Ref: NL/508
Published Date: 26-May-04
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