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.

Northern Ireland’s Policing Board was today under new pressure to place an outside officer in charge of the Omagh Bomb investigation.

Sir Ronnie Flanagan has rejected Northern Ireland police ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s call for an outside officer to head an investigation into the Omagh bomb atrocity, it was revealed tonight.

All the terrorists who bombed Omagh can still be brought to justice after the police inquiry in Northern Ireland is given new leadership, a senior British detective claimed today.