Omagh victims criticise government’s failure to meet with them

THE Government’s failure to meet with victims of the Omagh bombing came in for extensive criticism at the Fine Gael Árd Fheis at the weekend.

Speaking at an Árd Fheis session on the victims of terrorism Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the 1998 atrocity, said that he had spent five years attempting to get a meeting with the Irish and British Governments.

“We have been asking and trying to request a meeting with the Taoiseach for five years,” he said adding that Fine Gael was the only party on either side of the boarder to invite him to speak at an Árd Fheis.