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28 February 2010
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AFTERMATH REVIEW
Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice
by Ruth Dudley Edwards
Vintage, £8.99
The Omagh bomb, detonated in 1998, was the worst atrocity in Ulster’s modern history. Dudley Edwards has pieced together the conspiracy carried out by the Real IRA, the so-called “dissident Republicans”, and her book is a portrait of and tribute to the victims’ families who mounted an unprecedented challenge to the bombers by taking them on in the civil courts. It is also a gripping legal drama, featuring Jason McCue, the glamorous lawyer who, spurred by vanity and dogged idealism, took on and won the case. The story is extraordinary.
Stephen Robinson
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