Inquiry chairman Lord Turnbull acknowledged efforts by Laurence Rush in calling for an inquiry into the Omagh bombing, stating that he was “amongst the first to raise some of the questions which this inquiry will seek to determine”.
A shop owner and mother who was killed in the Omagh bomb blast has been described as “the moral compass” of her family, a public inquiry heard.
The widower of Elizabeth “Lbbi” Rush had “demanded accountability” in the years after her death but was “met with a wall of silence”, their children said.
They married in 1960 at the age of 19, and Mrs Rush ran a shop on Market Street in Omagh for 27 years.
She said that after “years of silence, apathy and belligerent ignorance”, she and her brothers believe there had been “a deliberate strategy to evade responsibility by the state”.
