We sometimes have peculiar, evasive attitudes towards our past; sometimes we remember too much, sometimes maybe we don’t remember enough. Sometimes we do both on the same day. Today, the 20th anniversary of the Omagh bombing, may just be such a day.

Relatives of Omagh bomb victims are to sue Northern Ireland's police chief for investigative failings they believe let the killers escape justice.

Relatives of Omagh bomb victims are to sue Northern Ireland's police chief for investigative failings they believe let the killers escape justice.

MICHAEL McKEVITT, one of four men found liable for the 1998 Omagh bomb in a civil action taken by relatives of the dead, is coming towards the end of a 20-year jail term for directing terrorism. He was also convicted of membership of the Real IRA. He had a cancerous kidney removed in May.

Families of victims of the Omagh bombing have strongly criticised efforts by TDs to secure the release on humanitarian grounds of a Real IRA leader.

Gardaí delayed handing over mobile phone evidence to the team prosecuting a man for the Omagh bombing, a lawyer told a court yesterday.

The prosecution case against a high-profile republican charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing is based on phone, forensic and witness evidence, a court has heard.

New evidence on the Omagh bombing has emerged to strengthen calls for an international inquiry into the atrocity, bereaved families have said.

A young Catholic police officer murdered by a booby-trap car bomb in the North had only recently graduated from training college.

David Cameron has condemned the “wicked and cowardly” bomb attack which killed a young police officer in Omagh.

A man whose son died in the Omagh bombing of 1998 has branded the latest murderous attack in the town a “double insult”.

A 25-year-old police officer has been killed by a booby-trap car bomb in Omagh, Co Tyrone, police have confirmed.

A PSNI officer is believed to have lost his life following a car bomb attack outside his home in Omagh this afternoon.

A police officer is understood to have been caught up in a booby trap car bomb in the North.