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...took just over an hour to deliver a judgment that the Omagh families had been waiting eight years to hear. In a landmark case on Monday, a Belfast judge found four men and the dissident terrorist group the Real IRA liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people and unborn twins, and awarded more than $2.6 million in damages to the families of those who died in the attack. But as well as bringing relief to the small market town of Omagh in Northern Ireland, Justice Declan Morgan's judgment could pave the way for victims' families around...
...Monday's judgment finally turned the tables in the families' favor. Four of the accused - Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly, none of whom were present in court - were judged to have assisted in the organization and execution of the bomb attack, with Justice Morgan describing the evidence against them as "overwhelming." (McKevitt and Campbell are known to have been members of the Real IRA at the time of the attack, while Murphy was described as having been a member of another IRA splinter group, the Continuity IRA, in August 1998. There is no proof that Daly...
...This is one of the last hurdles out of the way," Michael Gallagher told reporters after the judgment. "But the curtain can never be pulled on Omagh until both governments cooperate and tell families the truth...
...Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), novelist (You Shall Know Our Velocity), magazine editor (McSweeney's) and a Time 100 laureate; and Vendela Vida, nonfiction author (Girls on the Verge), novelist (And Now You Can Go) and magazine editor (The Believer). Their published work usually softens and complicates any sweeping judgment about people by honoring their eccentricities. Why, then, are they so dismissive of Lily and Lowell, L N and Rod, and so adoring of Burt and Verona? Why create these folks if you don't want to live inside them for a while...
...reality check when models output projections that suggest untenable growth.“I think we’ve learned a lesson about the limits of [quantitative modeling],” Stein says. “There’s a need to overlay it with softer, more qualitative judgment.”This approach strikes few as particularly novel—some well-performing hedge funds, for instance, have always relied on a global view of economic trends rather than heavily statistical data analysis. And “common sense” also applies to deciding which data points...