The greatest scar left by the bombing of Omagh was the scar of peace, a member of the Women's Coalition said yesterday, Rachel Donnelly reports.
Ms Pearl Sagar was speaking after she attended the Abolition of War conference organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, during which she told delegates that people in Northern Ireland were thinking seriously about peace for the first time in many years.
However, she said the biggest issue facing Northern Ireland was to bring about disarmament, and the Women's Coalition would do all it could to encourage that process.
"We are encouraged that even those members of paramilitary organisations have set down their arms. We are living in a segregated society . . . but people are really thinking about the community and the people they are living with."
The Omagh bombing and the disturbances at Drumcree during the summer had made the people of Northern Ireland very weary, and many still had serious doubts about the success of the Belfast Agreement However, Ms Sagar, who is now working with the Women's Coalition at a local level, said she was proud that the people of Northern Ireland had voted for peace.