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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
By Grinne N. Aodha

Shop owner killed in Omagh bombing was ‘moral compass’ of family, inquiry told

Andrew Rush (left) with his sister Siobhan Rose (nee Rush), children of Elizabeth ‘Libbi’ Rush, one of the victims of the Omagh bombing, leaving the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, Co Tyrone (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Wire)

A shop owner and mother who was killed in the Omagh bomb blast has been described as “the moral compass” of her family, a public inquiry heard.

The widower of Elizabeth “Lbbi” Rush had “demanded accountability” in the years after her death but was “met with a wall of silence”, their children said.

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