Omagh Bomb Digital Archive

Anthology of poetry The innermost thoughts and feelings of young people from Dunblane in Scotland, voluntary workers in Wales, and local people are to be found among the pages of a new anthology of poetry, "Love is Still Among Us". Written in memory of those who died in the bomb in Omagh, the anthology is the culmination of a simple wish by a local woman to achieve something positive from the evil which visited the town. The poems were collected by Joanna Grant, from the Oxfam shop in Omagh, following an appeal for contributions to the book.		Donation of £20,000 On the 16th February the Omagh Support and Self Help Group received £20,000, raised during one evening at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Racing in Dublin. The board of Shelbourne Park contacted ten Dublin companies to sponsor each of ten races at £1000, and then sixty individuals to sponsor the sixty dogs that would be competing, at £100. The sponsorship and money raised through gate proceedings and selling of advertising space in the printed programme totalled £19000, Shelbourne Park rounded the figure up to £20000.
	School prizegiving The annual prizegiving at Omagh High School was tinged with sadness and coloured by the events of the bombing of Market Street in the town. Speaking at the event, Mr. Harper said bomb victims Alan Radford and Lorraine Wilson would have been present at the prizegiving ceremony and he spoke of how the school was still overwhelmed by the loss of its pupils and former pupils who perished in the bombing.