NEWS REVIEW 2002 AUGUST
August
Elsewhere, further developments on the Omagh Bomb inquiry were made when it was revealed that writs had been served on five individuals over the bomb attack in August 1998. Families of the Omagh bomb victims voiced positive reactions to the news. The writs were served in the Republic shortly after it had been revealed that the Omagh relatives had beaten a legal deadline which threatened their unprecedented civil action by raising enough financial backing to allow them to bring the suspected terrorists to court.
As the month drew to an end, a Government Minister ordered an inquiry into why a woman injured in the Omagh bomb atrocity had to undress to her underwear in front of lawyers, as part of a claim for compensation.
The woman, who was on duty as a traffic warden in the town centre at the time of the bomb atrocity in 1998, was injured when the bomb exploded and sustained shrapnel injuries to her back and legs, of which some still remains in her body.
Work on the new Community House building close to the Omagh bomb site was said to be on schedule to be completed by the end of the November.
Work had started on the site at the junction of Market Street and Drumragh Avenue in July of 2001.
Elsewhere, further developments on the Omagh Bomb inquiry were made when it was revealed that writs had been served on five individuals over the bomb attack in August 1998. Families of the Omagh bomb victims voiced positive reactions to the news. The writs were served in the Republic shortly after it had been revealed that the Omagh relatives had beaten a legal deadline which threatened their unprecedented civil action by raising enough financial backing to allow them to bring the suspected terrorists to court.
As the month drew to an end, a Government Minister ordered an inquiry into why a woman injured in the Omagh bomb atrocity had to undress to her underwear in front of lawyers, as part of a claim for compensation.
The woman, who was on duty as a traffic warden in the town centre at the time of the bomb atrocity in 1998, was injured when the bomb exploded and sustained shrapnel injuries to her back and legs, of which some still remains in her body.
Work on the new Community House building close to the Omagh bomb site was said to be on schedule to be completed by the end of the November.
Work had started on the site at the junction of Market Street and Drumragh Avenue in July of 2001.
Further Information
Publisher: TYRONE CONSTITUTION
Ref: TC/1141
Published Date: 31-Dec-02
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