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Omagh victims remembered - Thousands mark bombing anniversary.
From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19990816
Author:Dee, Jim
Special to the Herald
OMAGH, Northern Ireland -"Too long a sacrifice, can make a stone of the heart," the legendary Irish writer William Butler Yeats once wrote of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rebellion.
But the sight of thousands of Protestants and Catholics gathered in Omagh yesterday suggested hope and unity, not despair and division, are the legacy of the worst bombing of Northern Ireland's Troubles.
Ten thousand people jammed Omagh center to remember the 29 people killed and more than 300 wounded when Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated a car bomb in the town one ...
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