Martina Devlin was born in Omagh, but left home at18 and lived in London before settling in Dublin. 马丁娜•戴芙琳生于奥马,18岁离家。定居都柏林前居住在伦敦。
Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by different groups. A phone call to a Dublin newspaper said the soldiers had been killed by the Real IRA, notorious for the Omagh bombing in1998. 先后有不同的团体声称对袭击事件负责:一个打到都柏林报纸的电话声称,两个士兵是被“真正北爱尔兰共和军”(此团体因1998年奥马爆炸案而臭名昭著)杀死的;