A car bombing took place in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland on 15 August 1998. It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army, a Provisional Irish Republican Army splinter g
The red Vauxhall Cavalier containing the bomb. This photograph was taken shortly before the explosion; the camera was found in the rubble.
Lower Market Street, site of the bombing, 2001. The courthouse is in the background
The scene in Market Street minutes after the bomb went off
Tyrone County Hospital, where many of the bomb victims were taken
Colm Murphy was an Irish republican who was the first person to be convicted in connection with the Omagh bombing, but whose conviction was overturned on appeal. While awaiting a retrial on criminal c
Omagh bombing
…investigation of the bombing. Police reportedly obtained circumstantial and coincidental evidence against some suspects, but were unable to convict. Colm Murphy was tried and convicted of conspiring to cause the bombing, but was released on appeal after it was revealed that the Garda Síochána forged interview…
Murphy appears on the Republican Network for Unity memorial in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast