Sister of Omagh bomb victim Oran Doherty - 'I don't think we'll ever get justice'

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Three young boys from Buncrana, Co Donegal were on a day trip to the town when the bomb exploded on August 15th 1998

The family of a young boy who was killed in the Omagh bomb say they believe they will never get justice for what happened.

Today marks 25 years since a 500lb car bomb detonated in the Co Tyrone town killing 29 people, including a mother who was pregnant with twins. Three young boys from Buncrana were killed in the blast on August 15th 1998. They had been on a day trip to the town.Lisa Dillon lost her eight-year-old brother Oran Doherty in the atrocity, and believes no one will ever be sent to prison for the attack.

"I don't think we'll ever get justice, I don't think anybody will ever be locked up for what they did.Ms Dillon said she still wonders how his killers live with themselves. "I don't like to think about it because it makes me really, really angry, and I don't like to feel angry," she said."When I sat in Omagh yesterday, and they called out the names and the ages of everybody that passed away that day, it was the first time I really thought, 'Oh my, they are all so young'".His brother was injured, and his cousin Oran Doherty and friend Sean McLaughlin were killed that day.

 

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