Northern Ireland
UK government launches inquiry to discover if the Omagh bombing could have been stopped
A High Court judgement found plausible arguments that the 1998 attack, which left 29 people dead, may have been averted
A statutory inquiry into whether the 1998 Omagh bombing could have been prevented has been announced by Northern Ireland’s Secretary of State, Chris Heaton Harris.
The announcement follows a recent High Court judgement which found plausible arguments that the bombing by the Real IRA could have been stopped.
In a statement this afternoon, the Northern Secretary’s office said that the Real IRA had claimed responsibility for the bombing in 1998 and that four members of ...
