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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Rebecca Black

Tourists, friends, flower girl to-be and ‘gentle giant’ father among Omagh dead

Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was one of the victims of the Omagh bombing, speaks to the media as he arrives at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, Co Tyrone (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Wire)

From a father recalled as a gentle giant to university students, tourists, and a very young flower girl to be, the 29 people killed in the Omagh bomb in 1998 are to be remembered during a public inquiry into the atrocity.

The impact on those survived will also be considered, with one person, who was 13 at the time of the blast describing it as “the final loss of innocence for me”.

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