Relatives of Omagh bomb victims tonight vowed to relentlessly pursue the £1.6m in damages that the men found liable for the attack have been ordered to pay.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are launching legal action in a bid to force the British and Irish Governments into granting a full scale cross-border inquiry into the outrage.

Two republicans being sued by relatives of victims of the Omagh bomb have been challenged to break their silence and testify in court.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are to meet Irish Justice Minister Alan Shatter tomorrow to press home demands for a cross-border inquiry into the 1998 atrocity.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims will tomorrow hold talks with Northern Ireland Secretary of State Owen Paterson on a new report they commissioned into the atrocity.

Relatives of some victims of the Omagh bomb are seeking a meeting with a former member of the Police Ombudsman’s office who was called in to investigate after the acquittal of the only man charged with the atrocity.

The Dalai Lama has branded the killing of young policeman Ronan Kerr in the North a senseless act.

Relatives pressing for a cross-border public inquiry into the Omagh bomb today branded their first meeting with the new Northern Ireland Secretary a disappointment.

A badly burned victim of the 1998 Omagh bomb massacre has yet to receive a penny in compensation, it was revealed today.

An independent investigation into one of the North’s worst terrorist atrocities which left 15 people dead in a pub bombing found no evidence police colluded with the loyalist killers, it was revealed today.

Evidence against Colm Murphy who is accused of a conspiracy in relation to the Omagh bomb in 1998 should not be admitted, his trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.

A Co Armagh farmer who gave evidence by video link from Belfast was described by a judge at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today as "terrified'' when he repeatedly said he could not remember working for Colm Murphy, the man accused of conspiracy in relation to the 1998 Omagh bombing.

The retrial of a Louth building contractor on conspiracy charges connected with the 1998 Real IRA Omagh bombing has opened at the new Criminal Court Complex.

The men behind the Omagh bomb could have been arrested before the atrocity, the man who investigated the murders said tonight.

Police Special Branch in the North was aware of intelligence information on the Omagh bomb soon after the atrocity, the former ombudsman claimed today.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims today won a landmark multi-million pound civil action against four men they blamed for the atrocity in which 29 people died.

Omagh bomb relatives will today learn the verdict in their multimillion-pound legal action against those they blame for the killings.

One of the alleged Omagh bombers was remanded in custody in Belfast today following a legal bid to extradite him to Lithuania to face arms smuggling charges.

The failure to successfully prosecute those behind the Omagh bomb might have contributed to this week’s security force deaths in the North, it was claimed today.

A review into claims that the British secret service was monitoring dissident republicans as they drove the Omagh bomb to its target has dismissed reports that the explosion could have been prevented.

A forum of politicians is to call on the British government to release secret files on the Real IRA suspects behind the Omagh bombing.

A British government inquiry into intelligence files linked to the Omagh bomb should be accelerated so it can be used in court, grieving relatives said tonight.

Phone records involving a convicted Real IRA member being sued by the families of the Omagh bomb victims should not be used in evidence as it breaches privacy rights, a court heard today.

THOUGH not on a par with the ferocity used by Russian forces to reimpose the old Soviet hegemony in Georgia this week’s pictures of burnt-out cars on the roads of Armagh, the gun and bomb attacks on PSNI officers in Craigavon, were reminders of the violence we all hoped had been consigned to the past.

A lawyer for the south Armagh man acquitted of involvement in the Omagh bombing has slammed a Policing Board report criticising the trial judge.

Colm Murphy was further remanded until next October by the Special Criminal Court today while he awaits the outcome of his legal challenge to a retrial on a conspiracy charge connected with the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died.

Families of the Omagh bomb victims will shun a meeting tonight that will reveal the proposed wording for a new memorial amid fears the true events are being airbrushed from history.

Colm Murphy has launched a new legal challenge to his retrial on a conspiracy charge connected with the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died.

The verdict will be delivered today in the trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in the North's worst ever terrorist atrocity.

Colm Murphy is to launch a new legal challenge to his retrial on a conspiracy charge connected to the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died.

Serving and retired officers lost confidence in the North’s outgoing Police Ombudsman, rank-and-file members said today.

Teenagers from the war-torn West Bank will today visit Dublin’s St Patrick’s Cathedral as part of their week-long Irish tour.

The North's Human Rights Commission should be able to question MI5 about alleged human rights abuses, the chief commissioner said today.

The judge in the Omagh bomb trial today launched a blistering attack on two police officers over what he branded misleading and false evidence.

Two detectives lied under oath while giving evidence at the trial of a man accused of being involved in the Omagh bombings, a court heard today.

A landmark civil action brought by relatives of people killed in the Omagh bomb has been scheduled in the High Court for April next year, it emerged today.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are bracing themselves for a harrowing new ordeal as the man accused of the North’s worst single terrorist atrocity goes on trial in Belfast tomorrow.

Strengthening dissident republican terrorists could unleash another Omagh-style bomb atrocity unless the British government intervenes urgently, it was claimed today.

The Director of Public Prosecutions failed today in his bid to have prison sentences increased on two men, including a man being sued in connection with the 1998 Omagh bomb, who were jailed after gardaí discovered a major bomb making operation near the border.

ON the day that terrorists struck the Twin Towers in September 2001, a British Labour Party press handler named Jo Moore emailed colleagues to share her bright idea that it would be a good day to issue press releases about bad news or unpopular policies.

The Special Criminal Court in Dublin today fixed a date next year for the trial of Colm Murphy, who is awaiting a retrial for offences connected with the Omagh bombing in 1998.

A trusted aide of President Mary McAleese who claims she is facing a bogus civil service inquiry into her conduct today lost a High Court bid to have the probe halted.

MI5 withheld vital anti-terrorism intelligence just months before the Omagh bomb atrocity, it was revealed today.

The North’s recently appointed Victims Commissioner today had talks with the relatives of those killed and injured in the Omagh bomb.