Jonathan McCambridge

Environment

Status orange rain weather warning issued

A series of yellow weather warnings are also in place across the island.
18 Apr 2025
UK

Officer tells inquiry he believes police were the intended target of Omagh bomb

Norman Haslett told a public inquiry of scenes of ‘hell’ in the aftermath of the 1998 explosion.
18 Feb 2025
UK

Retired officer says ‘cowards’ who planted Omagh bomb should provide answers

Richard Scott was an RUC constable in the Co Tyrone town in 1998.
18 Feb 2025
UK

Police felt ‘guilty and responsible’ for evacuating people closer to Omagh bomb

Retired superintendent James Baxter has been giving evidence to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry.
18 Feb 2025
UK

Injured officer tells of efforts to help victims in Omagh bomb devastation

Police officers who served in Omagh in 1998 have been giving evidence to a public inquiry into the Real IRA bombing.
18 Feb 2025
UK

Firefighter says he has never witnessed anything like Omagh bomb in 30 years

A public inquiry is continuing to hear personal statements from witnesses and people affected by the Real IRA bombing in August 1998.
17 Feb 2025
UK

Young Omagh victim robbed of ‘life full of possibilities’, inquiry hears

Victor Barker delivered a commemoration of his son James to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry.
17 Feb 2025
UK

Omagh families ‘woefully let down’ by police, father of victim tells inquiry

Victor Barker told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that his son James’s life had been taken away from him in the most ‘evil and barbaric fashion’.
17 Feb 2025
UK

Omagh first responders recall scenes which ‘should only be seen in a movie’

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry is continuing to hear personal statements from those affected by the 1998 Real IRA atrocity.
17 Feb 2025
UK

Paramedic recalls not being able to identify heads or feet of Omagh victims

Richard Quigley told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he remembers seeing dead bodies lined up in rows in a temporary morgue.
17 Feb 2025
Celebrity News

Play about Belfast student life to be staged in Brussels

Float is produced by Crybaby Productions and written by emerging playwrights Orla Graham and Kirby Thompson.
16 Feb 2025
UK

Woman tells inquiry of moment her foot was blown off by Omagh bomb

Suzanne Travis was a 20-year-old student when the Real IRA bomb exploded in 1998.
13 Feb 2025
UK

Omagh survivor tells inquiry blast left crater in road with injured inside

David McSwiggan told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he had repeatedly returned to the scene of devastation immediately after the explosion.
13 Feb 2025
UK

‘World stood still’ in aftermath of Omagh car bomb, inquiry told

Jim Sharkey was working as a newsagent in the Co Tyrone town in 1998 when it was devastated by a Real IRA bomb.
13 Feb 2025
UK

Baby was left with shrapnel inside brain by Omagh blast, inquiry hears

Caroline McKinney gave evidence to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry sitting beside her daughter Niamh.
12 Feb 2025
UK

Omagh survivor ‘haunted’ by guilt over death of niece in Real IRA massacre

Garry McGillion suffered severe injuries in the Real IRA blast which occurred in August 1998, just one week before he was due to be married.
12 Feb 2025
UK

Woman burned in Omagh bombing was ‘given last rites four times’

Donna-Marie McGillion gave evidence on Wednesday to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry.
12 Feb 2025
UK

O’Neill and Little-Pengelly to meet King at Windsor Castle

Sinn Fein’s Ms O’Neill previously met Charles when he visited Northern Ireland in 2022.
12 Feb 2025
UK

Victim says she was ‘humiliated’ having to strip for Omagh compensation claim

Rosemary Ingram suffered serious injuries in the 1998 Omagh bombing.
11 Feb 2025
UK

Woman tells inquiry she was ‘on fire’ after Omagh bomb exploded next to her

Omagh Bombing Inquiry chairman Lord Turnbull said he was ‘humbled’ by the account given by survivor Pauline Harte.
11 Feb 2025
UK

Omagh bombing survivor tells inquiry he placed sheets over victims’ bodies

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry is hearing accounts from survivors and people who were injured in the 1998 Real IRA massacre.
11 Feb 2025