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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Coalisland, Dungannon, Omagh, Omagh bombing, Strabane, Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council, Cookstown, Coalisland Canal, Dukart's Canal, Royal School Dungannon, Dungannon Swifts F.C., Omagh Town F.C., Omagh District Council, St Patrick's Academy, Dungannon, Omagh St. Enda's, Ulster American Folk Park, Christian Brothers Grammar School, Omagh, The Troubles in Dungannon, Healy Park, Dungannon Thomas Clarkes, Tyrone County Hospital, Integrated College Dungannon, Omagh College of Further Education, Strule Arts Centre, Tyrone Crystal, Killyclogher, Dunbreen Rovers, Coalisland Na Fianna, The Troubles in Coalisland, Dungannon Primary School, Ulster Herald, Omagh Academy, Omagh United F.C., Q101.2, Primate Dixon Primary School, Drumragh Integrated College, St Lucia Barracks, Omagh, Tyrone Times, Tyrone Constitution, Tyrone Courier, Stangmore Park, St. Joseph's High School, Coalisland, St Julian's Road. Excerpt: The Omagh bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Belfast Agreement, on Saturday 15 August 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Twenty-nine people died as a result of the attack and approximately 220 people were injured. The attack was described by the BBC as "Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity" and by the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, as an "appalling act of savagery and evil." Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness condemned the attack and the RIRA itself. The victims included people from many different backgrounds: Protestants, Catholics, a Mormon teenager, five other teenagers, six children, a woman pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists, and other tourists on a day trip from the Republic of Ireland. The nature of the bombing crea...