Northern Ireland’s chief constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan has not accepted any of the recommendations of the devastating report by the province’s Ombudsman into the police investigation of the Omagh bomb atrocity.

Sir Ronnie Flanagan is set to accept the main recommendations of the Ombudman’s damning report into the Omagh bomb inquiry.

Northern Ireland’s new policing structures were today under strain as Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan threatened to take legal action against the Police Ombudsman to clear his name after a damning report on the Omagh bomb.