Omagh fury
RELATIVES of the 29 people who died in the Omagh bombing have accused
Sinn Féin of blocking a memorial at the site.
The families of the victims reacted furiously to the re-opening of the
street in which the bomb exploded in August 1998.
The town council — which is dominated by Sinn Féin —
had promised that a memorial would be unveiled when the street re-opened.
Michael Gallagher — whose teenage son Aidan was killed in the explosion
— said he had no doubt the memorial would not be placed at the site
because Sinn Féin had objected to the wording.
The proposed wording, agreed by the families, was to read: “To honour
and remember 31 people murdered and hundreds injured from three nations
by a dissident Republican terrorist car bomb.”
But Councillor Sean Clarke of Sinn Féin said: “Omagh council
has unanimously agreed to unveil a memorial stone in 2008, to mark the
10th anniversary of the tragedy and the council has also unanimously agreed
the wording of the inscription.”
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