"The Omagh bombing was a paramilitary 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 August 15, 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 British Prime Minister Tony Blair as an "appalling act of savagery and evil".Sinn Féin 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, nine 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 created a strong international and local outcry against the RIRA, which later forced the organization to apologize, and spurred on the Northern Ireland peace process. In 2001, County Louth builder and publican Colm Murphy was convicted in connection to the bombing. He is currently awaiting a Court of Criminal Appeal ordered retrial. Murphy's nephew Sean Hoey of Jonesborough, South Armagh was cleared of all charges relating to the bombing on December 20, 2007 after spending four years in prison on remand. The families of those killed say that they will continue with a High Court civil action for £14 million against the two men and three others whom they say were responsible for the attack."
lo sabias? The Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn has directed a U2 videoclip every 5 years since the One videoclip in 1992. He also directed the Please (1997) and Electrical Storm (2002) videoclips.
concierto del mes Cada mes le prestamos atencion a un concierto; el de este mes tuvo lugar en East Rutherford, New Jersey, en 2005-05-18. Puedes descargarlo, leer cronicas o incluso escribir la tuya aqui. Tambien puedes participar en los comentarios a este concierto en nuestros foros.
titualeres de noticias Abarcamos las noticias de muchas paginas internacionales de U2 incluso U2.com, el titular mas popular de las ultimas dos semanas fue 'U2 rocking O2 Arena ... as the support act' de atu2.com.
el fan mas reciente entre nosotros El usuario registrado mas recientemente es fmaltoni. ¡Bienvenido a U2start, fmaltoni! Como nuevo usuario, puedes presentarte en nuestro Welcome to U2start y'all foro.
fan del mes Cada mes seleccionamos a un usuario como fan del mes; el de este mes es Ali709. Los Fans del mes son entrevistados por nosotros, y puedes leer la entrevista con Ali709 aqui.
fotos de alta resolucion Tenemos 696 fotos de alta resolucion de U2 disponibles para ti, es la coleccion mas grande que puedas encontrar. La utlima foto que agregamos es 'October'.
conciertos mas populares Segun los comentarios de nuestros usuarios, 1987-07-08 - Brussels, Belgium es el mejor concierto de nuestra coleccion. Nuestros usuarios tambien creen que 1993-08-28 - Dublin, Ireland fue un gran concierto, dado que tambien figura en la lista de
conciertos favoritos.
canciones mas populares La cancion Where The Streets Have No Name es la mas solicitada en nuestra pagina de canciones y por lo tanto de las mas poulares, de acuerdo a nuestra lista de canciones favoritas de nuestros usuarios, la cancion Bad es la favorita de todos los tiempos.
estadisticas Hay 4,740 temas abiertos en los foros, con 207,591 mensajes. Y 13,214 fans son miembros de U2start. La edad media de los usuarios de U2start es de 29 años (solo se cuenta la edad de los usuarios que completaron su perfil).
Noticias de la web Jeremy, known as haytrain here, is the latest addition to the U2start crew. Jeremy will be a crew member specialised in bootlegs, he will mainly work on maintaining our bootleg collection, making it even better, more r.. (leer más)
"Our belief in the people who come to see us is very strong. That's what's important about our relationship with our audience."
- Bono
Thank you for this "remebrance", if thats what you might call this.
