The anniversary of the Omagh bombing of August 1998 weighs heavily on me every year. My sadness does not begin to compare to that suffered by family, friends and neighbours of the dead and the injured, but I spent a decade closely involved with that small, brave...
The bullet, or the bomb, that murders one person does incalculable damage to so many more people, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 March 2020 I have a terrible memory for faces, but I’ve never forgotten the image of Lyra McKee’s mother, Joan, as...
Twenty years after the bomb which killed 31 people, their relatives continue to fight on for the £1.6m in damages, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 11 August 2018 This Wednesday, August 15, 20 years after the terrible Omagh bomb, I’ll be at St...
Relatives of those killed in the 1998 Real IRA attack overcame many obstacles to take a civil case, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published 7 February 2018 The news yesterday that the Hyde Park Justice Campaign has scored a famous victory took me back almost 15 years. It...
