GONE BUT THEIR NAMES WILL LIVE ON FOREVER
Gone - but their names will live on forever
JAMES VICTOR BARKER (12), one of three Buncrana schoolboys to die on a visit to the town with Spanish exchange students. He had been brought to live in Co Donegal by parents searching for a better way of life for their family just 12 months before the bomb.
GERALDINE AGNES BRESLIN (35), nee McCrystal, who was married just two years before her death land had a one-year old son at the time of the blast. She was a close friend of Anne McCombe, who was also killed. Both worked in Watterson's in Omagh, which lost three members of its working staff. Geraldine lived in Omagh.
DEBRA-ANNE CARTWRIGHT (20), who was working in Caroline's Beauty Salon, Omagh. A past pupil of both Omagh High School and Omagh College of Further [Education, Debra-Anne lived in Birchwood, Omagh, and was due to resume studies in Manchester the following autumn.
GARETH CONWAY (18), the fifth of seven children, who had just learned he had gained a place to study electronic engineering at the University of Ulster (Magee campus). He lived at Aghagogan, Carrickmore.
BREDA CATHERINE DEVINE (20 months), a baby sister in a young Donemana family of four, the eldest of whom, Aaron, is now 16. Breda fought for her life after being born three months premature, only to have it snatched away. Breda's mother, Tracy Devine, was the final survivor to leave hospital, just days before Christmas 1999, after spending weeks in a coma, only to be told of her daughter's death when she awoke.
ORAN MICHAEL DOHERTY (8), another of the Buncrana visitors to die horribly on a holiday visit to Tyrone's county town. His family said he had been looking to his trip to Omagh all week previous. His mother had not wanted him to make the trip.
AIDEN GALLAGHER (21), a college graduate, who had come into town from his Circular Road home by chance, when normally he would have worked at the car repair business he had striven so hard with his father, Michael, to build. A friend who accompanied him into town was also badly injured. Aiden was the only son of the Gallagher family.
ESTHER NORA GIBSON (36), from Beragh. Esther came from a large family, she was the eldest of five girls and six boys who grew up on a farm outside Beragh. She had worked in Desmonds clothing factory for 15 years and was a Sunday school teacher for the Free Presbyterian Church at Sixmilecross. She was due to be married in July 1999.
MARY GRIMES (65), the grandmother of the tragic family which lost three generations in the bombing, she was killed on her 65th birthday, as her husband Mick waited to welcome her back to her Beragh home with flowers. Her daughter, Avril Monaghan, and granddaughter, Maura Monaghan, were also killed. A native of Co Cork, Mary Grimes had been a maternity nurse.
OLIVE HAWKES (60), a Mountfield mother of two grown-up children, who would have celebrated her 61st birthday and ruby wedding anniversary the weekend of the bomb.
JULIA VICTORIA HUGHES (23), was working part-time at Image Express photographic shop in High Street while on summer holidays from Dundee University. She was unmarried and lived at Coneywarren with her family, including her twin brother, Justin.
BRENDA MARY LOGUE (17), was one of a family of five. Brenda had left her mother and grandmother in a shop to see what was happening in the street outside. She was caught by the full force of the bomb. Her mother and grandmother escaped with cuts and bruises. Brenda was from Loughmacrory and was the second parishioner of the Termonmaguirc parish, and its second teenager to die in the bombing, along with Gareth Conway.
BRIAN MCCRORY (54), one of the large and popular McCrory family raised at "The Crossroads" in Omagh's Lisnamallard area, Brian was married with two sons and a daughter.
SAMANTHA MCFARLAND (17), a Strabane Grammar School pupil from the Hospital Road area of Omagh, who was to be bridesmaid at her brother Jonathan's wedding one month later. Samantha had been reluctant to leave Market Street because she had the keys to the Oxfam shop, where she worked as a volunteer, with her. Samantha's best friend, Lorraine Wilson, who volunteered with her at Oxfam, was also killed.
ANNE MCCOMBE (49), was the second of the three staff of Watterson's drapery business to die and was good friends with Geraldine Breslin, who was also killed. She was married with two sons.
SEAN MCLAUGLIN (12), an altar boy at his local Buncrana Church, St Michael's Oratory, and was another of the Co Donegal children who had come to Tyrone to visit the Ulster American Folk Park and shop in Omagh. His family lived just a few doors from the Doherty family who lost their son, Oran.
JOLENE BREIGE MARLOW (17), a Loreto Grammar student, who was due to receive her A Level results the following Thursday. She was a keen sportswoman from Newtownsaville, Eskra. She had gone into Omagh with her sister Nicola, who was two years younger, and had taken their great aunt, Bernie Shaw, into Omagh on a shopping trip. Jolene had three brothers.
AVRIL MONAGHAN (30), seven months pregnant with twins, and cut down with her mother and 18-month-old daughter, while shopping in Omagh. Avril had four children under seven, leaving her husband to raise their three other children at their Augher home. She was in town with her 18-month-old daughter Maura and her mother, Mary Grimes, to celebrate Mary's birthday.
MAURA MONAGHAN (18 months), the terrorists' youngest victim, killed with her mother and grandmother.
VEDA ELIZABETH SHORT (56), a buyer for Watterson's lingerie and hosiery department, she had worked in the local drapery store for 20 years. From Gortaclare, she was a mother of four, and grandmother of three.
ALAN RADFORD (16), whose GCSE results arrived on the Tuesday after the bombing. Alan had gained sufficient grades to fulfil his ambition of becoming a chef. Alan's father, Melvin, had fled the country after being targeted by terrorists. Alan had hoped to see his father again for the first time in five years. Instead, Mr Radford flew in from Yorkshire for his son's funeral service at his Omagh home.
ELIZABETH (LIBBY) AMELDA RUSH (57), was the owner of the Pine Emporium, the former Libbi's Coffee Shop, at the bottom of Market Street. She stepped outside the shop front door to seek the cause of the commotion in the street, and was killed in the blast.
PHILOMENA (MENA) SKELTON, (39), a Drumquin housewife, was in the town shopping with her husband, Kevin, and daughters Paula, Tracy and Shauna, who were all teenagers at the time. The Skelton girls were trying on school uniforms when the bomb went off. Shauna needed surgery on burns suffered. Another son, Ray, was not with the rest of the family when the tragedy struck.
FRED WHITE (60), a member of the West Tyrone Unionist Association, and, for 22 years, treasurer of Ballynahatty and Creevan Presbyterian Church. He had just returned from a holiday abroad and was shopping in the town. He was killed with his son, Bryan.
BRYAN WHITE (26), was a trained horticulturist, who worked for Strabane District Council for several years, and was to take up a new post with Omagh District Council the week of his death. Killed along with his father, Fred.
LORRAINE WILSON (15), one of a family of four from the Hospital Road area of Omagh, died along with her best friend, Samantha McFarland, with whom she also worked part-time as an Oxfam volunteer.
FERNANDO BLASCO BASELGA (12), a Madrid schoolboy on an exchange trip to Buncrana. He died along with his group leader, Rocio Abad Ramos. Fernando's father, Manuel was injured in a terrorist bomb attack in Madrid in 1992. His parents travelled to Omagh to bring home his body. The Spanish ambassador also travelled to Ireland to help with the arrangements.
ROCIO ABAD RAMOS (23), from Madrid, Spain. Rocia was a Spanish group leader who was taking part in a student exchange programme to Buncrana, Donegal. Rocio Abad was on her fifth trip to Ireland. She was the leader of the exchange group and was helping supervise the Spanish children on a day trip to Omagh as part of their language course. She had been due to be married soon after the bombing.
SEAN MCGRATH (61), from Omagh, was a businessman, who was married with four children. He died in hospital on Saturday, September 5, 1998. He was the final victim to die from the bombing
JAMES VICTOR BARKER (12), one of three Buncrana schoolboys to die on a visit to the town with Spanish exchange students. He had been brought to live in Co Donegal by parents searching for a better way of life for their family just 12 months before the bomb.
GERALDINE AGNES BRESLIN (35), nee McCrystal, who was married just two years before her death land had a one-year old son at the time of the blast. She was a close friend of Anne McCombe, who was also killed. Both worked in Watterson's in Omagh, which lost three members of its working staff. Geraldine lived in Omagh.
DEBRA-ANNE CARTWRIGHT (20), who was working in Caroline's Beauty Salon, Omagh. A past pupil of both Omagh High School and Omagh College of Further [Education, Debra-Anne lived in Birchwood, Omagh, and was due to resume studies in Manchester the following autumn.
GARETH CONWAY (18), the fifth of seven children, who had just learned he had gained a place to study electronic engineering at the University of Ulster (Magee campus). He lived at Aghagogan, Carrickmore.
BREDA CATHERINE DEVINE (20 months), a baby sister in a young Donemana family of four, the eldest of whom, Aaron, is now 16. Breda fought for her life after being born three months premature, only to have it snatched away. Breda's mother, Tracy Devine, was the final survivor to leave hospital, just days before Christmas 1999, after spending weeks in a coma, only to be told of her daughter's death when she awoke.
ORAN MICHAEL DOHERTY (8), another of the Buncrana visitors to die horribly on a holiday visit to Tyrone's county town. His family said he had been looking to his trip to Omagh all week previous. His mother had not wanted him to make the trip.
AIDEN GALLAGHER (21), a college graduate, who had come into town from his Circular Road home by chance, when normally he would have worked at the car repair business he had striven so hard with his father, Michael, to build. A friend who accompanied him into town was also badly injured. Aiden was the only son of the Gallagher family.
ESTHER NORA GIBSON (36), from Beragh. Esther came from a large family, she was the eldest of five girls and six boys who grew up on a farm outside Beragh. She had worked in Desmonds clothing factory for 15 years and was a Sunday school teacher for the Free Presbyterian Church at Sixmilecross. She was due to be married in July 1999.
MARY GRIMES (65), the grandmother of the tragic family which lost three generations in the bombing, she was killed on her 65th birthday, as her husband Mick waited to welcome her back to her Beragh home with flowers. Her daughter, Avril Monaghan, and granddaughter, Maura Monaghan, were also killed. A native of Co Cork, Mary Grimes had been a maternity nurse.
OLIVE HAWKES (60), a Mountfield mother of two grown-up children, who would have celebrated her 61st birthday and ruby wedding anniversary the weekend of the bomb.
JULIA VICTORIA HUGHES (23), was working part-time at Image Express photographic shop in High Street while on summer holidays from Dundee University. She was unmarried and lived at Coneywarren with her family, including her twin brother, Justin.
BRENDA MARY LOGUE (17), was one of a family of five. Brenda had left her mother and grandmother in a shop to see what was happening in the street outside. She was caught by the full force of the bomb. Her mother and grandmother escaped with cuts and bruises. Brenda was from Loughmacrory and was the second parishioner of the Termonmaguirc parish, and its second teenager to die in the bombing, along with Gareth Conway.
BRIAN MCCRORY (54), one of the large and popular McCrory family raised at "The Crossroads" in Omagh's Lisnamallard area, Brian was married with two sons and a daughter.
SAMANTHA MCFARLAND (17), a Strabane Grammar School pupil from the Hospital Road area of Omagh, who was to be bridesmaid at her brother Jonathan's wedding one month later. Samantha had been reluctant to leave Market Street because she had the keys to the Oxfam shop, where she worked as a volunteer, with her. Samantha's best friend, Lorraine Wilson, who volunteered with her at Oxfam, was also killed.
ANNE MCCOMBE (49), was the second of the three staff of Watterson's drapery business to die and was good friends with Geraldine Breslin, who was also killed. She was married with two sons.
SEAN MCLAUGLIN (12), an altar boy at his local Buncrana Church, St Michael's Oratory, and was another of the Co Donegal children who had come to Tyrone to visit the Ulster American Folk Park and shop in Omagh. His family lived just a few doors from the Doherty family who lost their son, Oran.
JOLENE BREIGE MARLOW (17), a Loreto Grammar student, who was due to receive her A Level results the following Thursday. She was a keen sportswoman from Newtownsaville, Eskra. She had gone into Omagh with her sister Nicola, who was two years younger, and had taken their great aunt, Bernie Shaw, into Omagh on a shopping trip. Jolene had three brothers.
AVRIL MONAGHAN (30), seven months pregnant with twins, and cut down with her mother and 18-month-old daughter, while shopping in Omagh. Avril had four children under seven, leaving her husband to raise their three other children at their Augher home. She was in town with her 18-month-old daughter Maura and her mother, Mary Grimes, to celebrate Mary's birthday.
MAURA MONAGHAN (18 months), the terrorists' youngest victim, killed with her mother and grandmother.
VEDA ELIZABETH SHORT (56), a buyer for Watterson's lingerie and hosiery department, she had worked in the local drapery store for 20 years. From Gortaclare, she was a mother of four, and grandmother of three.
ALAN RADFORD (16), whose GCSE results arrived on the Tuesday after the bombing. Alan had gained sufficient grades to fulfil his ambition of becoming a chef. Alan's father, Melvin, had fled the country after being targeted by terrorists. Alan had hoped to see his father again for the first time in five years. Instead, Mr Radford flew in from Yorkshire for his son's funeral service at his Omagh home.
ELIZABETH (LIBBY) AMELDA RUSH (57), was the owner of the Pine Emporium, the former Libbi's Coffee Shop, at the bottom of Market Street. She stepped outside the shop front door to seek the cause of the commotion in the street, and was killed in the blast.
PHILOMENA (MENA) SKELTON, (39), a Drumquin housewife, was in the town shopping with her husband, Kevin, and daughters Paula, Tracy and Shauna, who were all teenagers at the time. The Skelton girls were trying on school uniforms when the bomb went off. Shauna needed surgery on burns suffered. Another son, Ray, was not with the rest of the family when the tragedy struck.
FRED WHITE (60), a member of the West Tyrone Unionist Association, and, for 22 years, treasurer of Ballynahatty and Creevan Presbyterian Church. He had just returned from a holiday abroad and was shopping in the town. He was killed with his son, Bryan.
BRYAN WHITE (26), was a trained horticulturist, who worked for Strabane District Council for several years, and was to take up a new post with Omagh District Council the week of his death. Killed along with his father, Fred.
LORRAINE WILSON (15), one of a family of four from the Hospital Road area of Omagh, died along with her best friend, Samantha McFarland, with whom she also worked part-time as an Oxfam volunteer.
FERNANDO BLASCO BASELGA (12), a Madrid schoolboy on an exchange trip to Buncrana. He died along with his group leader, Rocio Abad Ramos. Fernando's father, Manuel was injured in a terrorist bomb attack in Madrid in 1992. His parents travelled to Omagh to bring home his body. The Spanish ambassador also travelled to Ireland to help with the arrangements.
ROCIO ABAD RAMOS (23), from Madrid, Spain. Rocia was a Spanish group leader who was taking part in a student exchange programme to Buncrana, Donegal. Rocio Abad was on her fifth trip to Ireland. She was the leader of the exchange group and was helping supervise the Spanish children on a day trip to Omagh as part of their language course. She had been due to be married soon after the bombing.
SEAN MCGRATH (61), from Omagh, was a businessman, who was married with four children. He died in hospital on Saturday, September 5, 1998. He was the final victim to die from the bombing
Further Information
Publisher: TYRONE CONSTITUTION
Ref: TC10An/17
Published Date: 14-Aug-08
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