He got fewer than six months for each of those that died in Omagh, one afternoon in August four years ago. So reacted Patsy Gallagher to the 14-year sentence just handed to Colm Murphy. Sheltering in the doorway of the Special Criminal Court from the lunchtime rain, she said "he should have got life".
"He shouldn't have been even allowed out on the streets once they picked him up, not with his background."
Ms Gallagher was one of 17 relatives who had travelled from Omagh to hear the only person to stand trial in connection with the Omagh bombing being sentenced.
It was "very important" she said, that she and her husband, Michael, should be in Dublin to hear the sentencing. They had lost "our only son" - 21-year-old Adrian - in the 1998 atrocity.
"He's \ the first person to be on trial for the bombing. It's the first of many times we'll be here, I hope."
Carol Radford, who lost her 16- year-old brother Alan, said she was "just delighted that somebody has been brought to book for what happened".
Asked what she thought of Murphy's defence argument, that he was a "long, long way from the fulcrum of this conspiracy" and that he played only a minor part in the atrocity, she shook her head.
"No, I think he knew what he was doing, knew what he was lending the phones for. And he knew the risks of what might happen".
A huge media presence greeted those relatives that had travelled from Omagh to hear the sentence, as they left the court shortly before lunchtime. Eleven television crews as well as about 40 journalists and photographers were gathered in the quiet street outside the court to record their reaction.
Mr Michael Gallagher was the first to speak. He said they hoped a message would go out from the court to anyone else involved in the bombing.
"If you end up here, and we hope very much that you do, you will get what you deserve," he said. "The sentence handed down today might seem extreme but for the people who died, to quantify it, it will end up less than six months of their lives."
