BOYZONE WINS OMAGH HEARTS
Boyzone wins Omagh hearts
BY STEPHANIE BELL
POP heart-throbs Boyzone put smiles back on the faces of the young people of Omagh last night when they played a special tribute concert.
Around 1,000 teenagers packed into Omagh leisure centre to watch the chart topping band perform an hour-long set of their hits.
Afterwards, the stars met some of the young victims of the August 15 atrocity, many of them still bearing the awful scars of the bombing.
The band signed autographs and chatted to more than a dozen young fans, some of them young girls in wheelchairs, who had lost limbs and others who had been badly burned in the attack.
Lead singer Ronan Keating said: "To be greeted like this here is wonderful. We're just glad to be here to do what we can to help. The response when we went out on stage was phenomenal." The band were on tour in Europe when they heard of the bombing, and said they had wanted to do something to help as soon as they could. "We couldn't believe it. It was devastating," said singer Keith Duffy.
"But we were so busy at the time, we didn't get a chance to send our love."
During the concert, Ronan was greeted with cheers from the young audience when he told them: "I don't need to go into the reason why we are here. We are here to have a good time, isn't that right?"
The band played 13 of their hits during the first of two concerts in Omagh.
BY STEPHANIE BELL
POP heart-throbs Boyzone put smiles back on the faces of the young people of Omagh last night when they played a special tribute concert.
Around 1,000 teenagers packed into Omagh leisure centre to watch the chart topping band perform an hour-long set of their hits.
Afterwards, the stars met some of the young victims of the August 15 atrocity, many of them still bearing the awful scars of the bombing.
The band signed autographs and chatted to more than a dozen young fans, some of them young girls in wheelchairs, who had lost limbs and others who had been badly burned in the attack.
Lead singer Ronan Keating said: "To be greeted like this here is wonderful. We're just glad to be here to do what we can to help. The response when we went out on stage was phenomenal." The band were on tour in Europe when they heard of the bombing, and said they had wanted to do something to help as soon as they could. "We couldn't believe it. It was devastating," said singer Keith Duffy.
"But we were so busy at the time, we didn't get a chance to send our love."
During the concert, Ronan was greeted with cheers from the young audience when he told them: "I don't need to go into the reason why we are here. We are here to have a good time, isn't that right?"
The band played 13 of their hits during the first of two concerts in Omagh.
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Publisher: SUNDAY LIFE
Ref: SL/070
Published Date: 03-Jan-99
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