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Omagh bombing
1998 car bombing in Northern Ireland
Omagh bombing
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 (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year. The bombing killed 29 people and injured about 220 others, making it the deadliest incident of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the second deadliest incident of the conflict overall after the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974. Telephoned warnings which did not specify the location had been sent almost forty minutes beforehand, and police inadvertently moved people towards the bomb. The bombing caused outrage both locally and internationally, spurred the Northern Ireland peace process, and dealt a severe blow to the dissident Irish republican campaign. The Real IRA denied that the bomb was intended to kill civilians and apologised; shortly after, the group declared a ceasefire...
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