Omagh memorial - Catalyst for a prosperous united island

NEXT August we will mark the 10th anniversary of the Omagh bombing.

Omagh was one of the terrible atrocities that finally made it impossible for paramilitaries to continue their campaigns of murder and terror.

Mass murder on that dreadful scale, such an amoral contempt for human life, galvanised a growing and determined opposition to terrorism among all democrats on this island. Twenty-nine people died on the streets of the unremarkable Tyrone market town that summer’s day. By trying to push us apart the men of violence brought us together.