The Omagh bombing inquiry: one father’s 26-year fight for the truth

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Journalist Shane Harrison and campaigner Michael Gallagher chart the long legal struggle for a public inquiry into the 1998 atrocity, which begins by hearing from survivors and bereaved families. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:06.8	Today, an inquiry into the Omar bombing is about to start.
0:12.0	Will the families of those who died finally get the answers they deserve?
0:19.6	People can't stop talking about Golden Globe nominated for Best Picture Drama, September 5.
0:24.6	There's a hostage situation right now in the Olympic Village.
0:27.2	A claustrophobic masterpiece, The Times, Ed Potten.
0:30.2	ABC wants news to take over.
0:31.5	Your sports, they're in way over your head.
0:33.3	Based on true events.
0:34.5	If they shoot someone on live television, whose story is that?
0:37.6	Is it ours or is it theirs?
0:38.8	A Todd, tense thriller, four stars, the guardian, Peter Bradshaw.
0:42.1	Our job is to tell the story of these individuals.
0:44.6	What's happening?
0:45.5	Oh, God.
0:46.3	September 5 in Cinemas, February 6th, cert 15.
1:00.8	The bomb ripped out the heart of a town packed with shoppers and with people enjoying Oma's annual carnival day.
1:02.8	The massive car bomb in Oma exploded at 10 past three in the heart of the town's busy shopping
1:07.6	area at the junction of Drumra Avenue and Market Street.
1:20.6	The bunting was up in Omar that day, the 15th of August 1998, for the town's summer carnival. Children were out on the streets in fancy dress and face paint, families shopping on Market Street,
1:26.6	getting ready for the start of summer
1:28.5	term a few weeks away. A car had been stolen to order. The bomb was mainly made from fertilizer. That was
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