Sunday Bloody Sunday


When the song breaks and Bono is out on the catwalk type thing, he keeps saying "3 years after Oma" What is Oma? (Oma? Omar?)

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Omagh was the site of bombings in Northern Ireland, where 26 people died (3 years before the concert took place). The I.R.A. later took responsibility for the bombings.

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He lists off all the names, and the bombings are also the subject of the All That You Can't Leave Bhind song "Peace on Earth".

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