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Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored

By Brendan Anderson, Contributor
February / March 2002

February 1, 2002 by Leave a Comment

A report on the Omagh atrocity has heavily criticized the controversial Special Branch of the Northern Irish police force for allegedly failing to act on an informer's warning that dissident republicans intended to launch an attack in the County Tyrone town. A wave of disgust greeted the news that the warning had been received 11 days before the massive Real IRA bomb ripped the … [Read more...] about Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored

June 29, 1915

Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, a prominent Fenian leader and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, passed away in New York on June 29, 1915. Born in Co. Cork, Rossa was arrested and in 1865. He was charged with planning a Fenian Rising. He served out his sentence in England and after realizing he could not return to Ireland in exile, Rossa moved to the U.S. where he joined Clan Na Gael and the Fenian Brotherhood. A memorial to Rossa Stands in St. Stephen’s Green.

Fury Over Claim That Omagh
Bomb Warnings Were Ignored

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