4 R IRISH deploys in response to the Omagh Bombing.

Elements of the 4th (County Fermanagh and County Tyrone) Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment, a Home Service battalion, were deployed in support of the police in response to a car bomb which exploded in the centre of Omagh killing 29 people, plus two unborn children, and injuring over 200 others. The attack, described as Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist attrocity, was carried out by the Real IRA, a splinter group of the Provisional IRA. The victims of the attack came from both Protestant and Catholic backgrounds as well as visitors from the Irish Republic and Spain.