Bricklayer Seamus Daly has been released from prison after his prosecution for the Omagh bomb attack collapsed before it reached trial.

Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a bricklayer accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bomb.

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.

A high-profile republican has been charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing, police said.