1998: Ireland IRA blast in Omagh that killed 28 people

The “Real IRA,” a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army opposed to Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement, admits responsibility for a blast in Omagh that killed 28 people and injured 220 others but not for the casualties, which it blames on authorities that supposedly did not heed the group’s warnings.

 

To: 
General public
From: 
IRA
Year of Apology: 
1998
Footnote: 
Askwith, Richard. “The Year of Saying Sorry.” Daily Telegraph. December 26, 1998.