After four weeks of heartbreaking testimony about the victims and from the survivors of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the final thing to be raised last week came under the banal heading of "Housekeeping".

So recalled Jim Sharkey who spoke to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry about the aftermath of the deadliest attack in the history of the Troubles. By the time the sirens subsided and the smoke cleared ...

Survivors of the Omagh bomb have been giving evidence on the final day of this phase of the public inquiry saying the town was turned into a "war zone" by the Real IRA atrocity. Simon McLarnon was ...

A survivor of the Omagh bombing has said that everything that has happened in his life since 1998 has been a result of the tragedy. Rodney Patterson told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he was ...

The centre of Omagh was turned into a “war zone” after a Real IRA bomb exploded in 1998, survivors have told a public inquiry. One woman injured in the blast described how a large piece of the ...

Evidence from victims’ families and survivors of the Omagh bombing has shone a “bright light on the terrible consequences” of the Real IRA massacre, a public inquiry has heard. The chairman ...

Police officers on duty on the day of the Omagh bombing have told the inquiry into the atrocity how they wrapped the dead in sheets and blankets and laid them out of sight in a nearby alleyway as ...

The police commander in Omagh on the day the town was bombed has said many of his officers felt “guilty and responsible” that they had evacuated members of the public towards the explosive device.

The families of those bereaved in the Omagh bombing were “woefully let down” by a poor police investigation, the father of a boy killed in the explosion has said. Victor Barker told the Omagh ...

Emergency service workers yesterday told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry what they saw in the aftermath “should only have been seen in a movie”. Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with ...

One of the first firefighters to respond to the Omagh bombing said he has never witnessed anything in three decades which comes close to the scenes of devastation on the day. Paddy Quinn told the ...