AN Omagh bombing suspect is seeking up to £15,000 in compensation, claiming he was traumatised after being shown photographs of the atrocity during questioning.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern confirmed tonight his former special adviser on Northern Ireland held a meeting with the political wing of the Real IRA.

A man was being questioned today by detectives investigating an abduction blamed on the Provisional IRA.

REPUBLICAN and loyalist paramilitaries are working hand in hand in the campaign to have the North’s prisons segregated, prison officers claimed last night.

FBI agent David Rupert told the Special Criminal Court today that he used to fax a daily digest of news reports from Irish newspapers and republican websites to his FBI handler.

MICHAEL McKEVITT, the man accused of leading the group involved in the Omagh atrocity, was “horribly upset” over the carnage caused by the car bomb, a court heard yesterday.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern last night confirmed his one-time special advisor Martin Mansergh had tried to secure a Real IRA cease fire.

A committee has been formed in Belfast to speak for all republican prisoners still in jail.

DAMIAN BYRNE believes that the Good Friday Agreement has been a failure because it was a ‘compromise’ and failed to resolve ‘once and for all the crucial issues of sovereignty and democracy that went to the heart of the conflict’ (The Irish Examiner, August 1).

LAWYERS acting for Omagh bomb relatives served writs on five men they suspect of having planned and carried out the Omagh bomb.

Tension at Portlaoise prison remained high today after a protest by prisoners left four guards and an inmate needing hospital treatment.

No terrorist organisation has yet claimed responsibility for today’s car bomb in West London but the Real IRA has been the only group which has attacked Britain in recent years.

Former IRA chief of staff Sean MacStiofan is due to be buried in Co Meath shortly.

The Real IRA has been cracked wide open by an MI5 spy who is set to testify at the trial of the dissident terror grouping’s suspected leader, according to reports.

An alleged leading member of the Real IRA is to apply to be freed on bail today at the Special Criminal Court.