TEAM OF ADVISORS APPOINTED TO HELP DELIVER OMAGH BOMB MEMORIAL
TEAM OF ADVISORS APPOINTED TO HELP DELIVER OMAGH BOMB MEMORIAL
AN ADVISORY panel, made up of five people, has been appointed by the Omagh Memorial Working Group to assist in the process of commissioning and delivering a permanent fitting memorial to the Omagh, bomb of 15 August, 1998.
The Memorial will be in place "in time for the l0th anniversary of the atrocity, which, killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
The advisory panel membership includes representatives of the British, Irish and Spanish governments as well as of the Arts council of Northern Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
It is made up of Billy Gamble, from the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), Sarah Mangan, from the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, Felix Valdes from the Spanish Consulate in Manchester, Paul Harron, from the Arts council for Northern Ireland, and Tony Dennett, from Visual Artists Ireland. The Office of the Victims' Commissioner has given a commitment to consider appointing a representative to the advisory panel once a permanent Victims' Commissioner is in place and the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation has agreed to assist the process in whatever way possible.
The Omagh Memorial Working Group was established in late 1999 to take forward the provision of a fitting permanent memorial to the victims of the Omagh bomb.
Working Group members were drawn from the statutory, voluntary, community and private sectors together with representation from Omagh. Churches Forum and of the bereaved and the injured.
Mr Danny McSorley, the group chairman, said: "The working group has moved to establish an advisory tier in recognition of the fact that the Omagh bomb had a huge impact not only locally, but also nationally and internationally."
He added; "It has been appointed to take a strategic overview of the process to provide a memorial as well as to afford an external perspective and to provide advice and expertise.
"The panel will meet regularly with the Omagh Memorial Working Group to monitor progress and will also be involved in the assessment of applications received to the Public Art Competition to appoint a design team,"
Representatives of the advisory panel attended the recent monthly meeting of the Omagh Memorial Working Group in Omagh, when the 'brief and timescale for the Public Art Competition to appoint a design team was agreed.
The Public Art Competition will be launched in the spring of 2007, when design teams will be asked to submit their proposals for an appropriate design which will link the bomb site and the site of the temporary memorial garden at Drumragh Avenue. A budget of �250,000 has been set aside for the project.
AN ADVISORY panel, made up of five people, has been appointed by the Omagh Memorial Working Group to assist in the process of commissioning and delivering a permanent fitting memorial to the Omagh, bomb of 15 August, 1998.
The Memorial will be in place "in time for the l0th anniversary of the atrocity, which, killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
The advisory panel membership includes representatives of the British, Irish and Spanish governments as well as of the Arts council of Northern Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
It is made up of Billy Gamble, from the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM), Sarah Mangan, from the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, Felix Valdes from the Spanish Consulate in Manchester, Paul Harron, from the Arts council for Northern Ireland, and Tony Dennett, from Visual Artists Ireland. The Office of the Victims' Commissioner has given a commitment to consider appointing a representative to the advisory panel once a permanent Victims' Commissioner is in place and the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation has agreed to assist the process in whatever way possible.
The Omagh Memorial Working Group was established in late 1999 to take forward the provision of a fitting permanent memorial to the victims of the Omagh bomb.
Working Group members were drawn from the statutory, voluntary, community and private sectors together with representation from Omagh. Churches Forum and of the bereaved and the injured.
Mr Danny McSorley, the group chairman, said: "The working group has moved to establish an advisory tier in recognition of the fact that the Omagh bomb had a huge impact not only locally, but also nationally and internationally."
He added; "It has been appointed to take a strategic overview of the process to provide a memorial as well as to afford an external perspective and to provide advice and expertise.
"The panel will meet regularly with the Omagh Memorial Working Group to monitor progress and will also be involved in the assessment of applications received to the Public Art Competition to appoint a design team,"
Representatives of the advisory panel attended the recent monthly meeting of the Omagh Memorial Working Group in Omagh, when the 'brief and timescale for the Public Art Competition to appoint a design team was agreed.
The Public Art Competition will be launched in the spring of 2007, when design teams will be asked to submit their proposals for an appropriate design which will link the bomb site and the site of the temporary memorial garden at Drumragh Avenue. A budget of �250,000 has been set aside for the project.
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Publisher: TYRONE CONSTITUTION
Ref: TC/1870
Published Date: 18-Jan-07
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