Omagh (7.8.06)

Today we've been to Omagh, which is about 2 hours busdrive from Belfast. We met with the youth officer of WELB (Western Education and Library Board). They do quite a lot of projects for young people - we've been quite amazed. The youth centre of Omagh has 600(!) members - I think in our city in Austria (which isn't much smaller than Omagh) there aren't even 60 members.
We've been doing an interview with him for our documentary, but it would take tooooo long to explain all the details and we also don't want to bore you by writing down each word we spoke.

But we shortly want to mention one project young people organised - working with Action1 of the EU's YOUTH programme. It was a project on drug abuse - young people used the money granted from the EU to finance a needle exchange programme for heroin addicts and to train other people to do active work against drug abuse.
Hats off!

The town

In Omagh, there has been the worst incident concerning "the troubles", a car bomb which killed 31 people. This is the memorial stone.