Omagh Page #3

I'm going with her, Daddy.

Help with Darra.

- Will you be all right?

- Yeah.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah, we'll be fine.

See you, Mummy.

Okay. See you, Darra.

Mum.

Okay.

What are you gonna do

about college?

It's not starting

for a few weeks yet.

You don't have to make up

your mind yet, do you?

Well, I'll see how I go.

You'll be all right?

Yeah, we'll be fine.

We'll all be fine.

Look after yourselves, okay?

Bye.

Safe driving, now.

Are you sure

you'll be all right?

Yes. Safe home.

Come on, Darra.

Patsy, leave that, darling.

I'm just gonna tidy away

a few things.

No, I'll do that.

You go on upstairs to bed.

I'll be up in 5 minutes, okay?

- Go on ahead.

- Okay.

...to continue

with the Peace Process.

tonight,

some still critically injured.

So far, the tragedy

has claimed 31 lives,

including those of 2 children.

The group responsible for

the Omagh bombing, the Real IRA,

declared a permanent cease-fire

at 2:
00 A.M. this morning

following pressure

from the Provisional IRA

and the Irish

and British governments.

Tony Blair said that this

didn't alter his determination

to catch the bombers.

For our part, we have agreed

that the two governments

will work together

and will do everything that

is possible within their power

to hunt down those

that have been responsible

for this outrage.

Police today have...

Hello?

Is that Michael Gallagher?

Yes.

What about this football match?

Football match?

Alex Ferguson, Roy Keane

coming to play a benefit match

in Omagh.

Surely, you knew about that.

No, I haven't heard.

Do you know if there's been

any charges yet?

Have the police

told you anything

about what they're doing?

No, they haven't.

Who is this, by the way?

Laurence Rush.

Laurence Rush?

His wife owned the Gift Shop.

My wife, Libbi,

owned the Gift Shop

before they blew her up.

Yes, I knew Libbi.

The point is, Michael,

where's our voice in all this?

I don't know.

I've called a meeting

for all the families.

The Royal Arms, Tuesday night.

He's organized a meeting,

he says.

Maybe we should go, Michael,

just to know what's going on.

What I find disgusting

and downright insulting

is the fact that

they've reopened the street

so shortly after the event.

I was at the memorial

for my daughter.

And there was barely room

for my family.

Politicians everywhere.

Trimble, Hume,

McGuiness for God's sake!

I never invited any of them.

And now they're saying we're

not entitled to compensation.

It's not about the money.

It's what they're saying.

They're saying that he wasn't

worth anything.

My daughter has to strip

to show her injuries

for the compensation board,

to show what they did to her.

I can't believe people would

make a young girl do that.

This Omagh fund,

they seem to be saying

that it's almost like

a Victorian means test.

But what I want to know

is what the RUC are doing.

Can anyone tell me that?

What has this got to do

with the RUC?

I'll tell you what it's got

to do with the RUC.

and 38 people

have been released.

That's what it's got to do

with the RUC.

Yes, but most of those

are south of the border.

That is the Garda.

That is not the RUC.

Nobody's telling us anything.

Nobody's telling us a thing.

I've written to Tony Blair.

It's not worth the paper

it's written on.

Well, he is the prime minister

for God's sake.

It's the same old story.

As long as the bombs stay

out of London,

they don't give a damn.

It's always been that way,

and it always will be.

No, sorry, Laurence.

I'm sorry.

Please don't sit there

and try and tell me

that this is all somehow

the fault of the British.

When are the Irish gonna start

taking responsibility

for what happens in Ireland?

Money for bombs, still going on.

What's being done about that?

Nothing!

This is never gonna work.

Michael, you've got to say

something.

The Nationalist community?

What about

the Unionist community?

If we want peace, we've got to

find a peace that works.

Has Paisley ever put a bomb

under a car?

He doesn't have to.

Every time he opens his mouth

he condemns the Peace Process.

No. Excuse me.

What gives you the right to talk

to people like this?

Can I just say something?

Please, can we all stop

shouting at each other?

Laurence, can I say something?

Laurence, can I say something?

Laurence, we're not

gonna get anywhere

if all we do is shout

at each other.

We're not gonna get anywhere.

Go on, Michael. Go on.

I'm not very good

at public speaking.

You can do it.

Look, I haven't put on the TV

since the day we buried

our Aiden.

So I don't know

what's happening.

But I do know there's Catholics

in this room and Protestants.

And Presbyterians.

And Mormons.

Marion's here.

And...

And...

some of us believe in God.

And now maybe some of us

have no God.

But I can tell you this.

We're not gonna get anywhere

unless we do it together.

That's the truth of the matter.

Hear, hear!

You're so right.

- Daddy?

- What?

Do you actually know

what a chairman does?

Haven't a clue,

have you, Michael?

Well, you just tell people

when they can talk

and when they can't talk.

And maybe make

a few phone calls

every now and then.

You can't manage to open

your mouth at home.

How are you gonna cope

with that lot?

Come on,

it's okay for us to laugh.

Well, I just think

that it'll be good

for us to be involved maybe,

you know.

Will we get something to eat?

- Yeah. Where'll we go?

- Chips.

Oh, no, not chips again.

Hello?

Hello?

I wonder, would it be possible

to be put through

to the person in charge

of the inquiry?

Yes, my name

is Michael Gallagher.

Is there anybody else in the

office that I could speak to?

I'm Michael Gallagher.

My name is Michael Gallagher.

I'm ringing on behalf

of the Omagh Self-Help

and Support Group.

We're the families

of the victims of the bomb.

Hello.

We're the Omagh Support Group.

We've a meeting with

Chief Superintendent Anderson.

If you just go through

that way there, please, sir.

Chief Superintendent

Eric Anderson.

- It's Mister...

- Gallagher. Michael Gallagher.

Mr. Gallagher,

please do come in.

How are you doing?

Stanley McCombe.

Victor Barker.

Alan Skelton.

Elizabeth Gibson.

Obviously, I'd like to extend

my deepest sympathies

to you all at this time.

Now, please,

if there's anything you need,

anything at all.

I presume you all have your

own liaison officers by now.

Yes.

Now, we're still

at the very early stages

of a painstaking investigation.

As you can imagine,

we're facing an enormous task.

But my officers are working

night and day.

You can be assured of that.

Now...

Excuse me. Would it be possible

for me to ask a question?

Yes, certainly, Mr. Gallagher.

I think what we all

want to know here

is when will you be

pressing charges

against the men who did this?

As I say, we're still

at the very early stages

of a very difficult inquiry.

What I can say

is we're making good progress.

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