I see it’s been 10 years since the bombing of Omagh.
I remember it, I was young and free and not connected to a mobile phone or the Internet or anything else really, I remember being at church the next day listening to the sermon in which some things about violence were mentioned, I looked down and under the seat in front of me was a Sunday paper with the story on the front page, it’s odd, I felt really shocked!
For years I had heard things about bombs and assassinations and shootings and intimidation, I had seen news about death and destruction, but never had felt anything much besides boredom!
Thirty one people murdered by the ‘Real’ IRA, shoppers in a town all too like my own town, people all too like my people, it’s odd how something can get to you!
Irish Tory 