Judgment has been reserved in a High Court action brought by the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing aimed at securing documents from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

The families of some of those killed in the Omagh bombing are seeking the discovery of documentation from five individuals who have appeared before the Special Criminal Court and are being sued for damages arising out of the 1998 explosion that killed 29 people, the High Court in Dublin heard today.

It took police controllers 10 minutes to alert officers in the North to a bomb planted outside their station, a terrorism trial in Northern Ireland heard today.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims condemned as “lenient” the sentence given today to one of the men suspected of being responsible for the atrocity.

A Monaghan man who is being sued by relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing was jailed for three and a half years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for membership of an illegal organisation, namely the Real IRA.

Allegations that an IRA man shot dead in South Armagh was killed with his own weapon during a dispute over land have been retracted.

The UUP says any move to dismantle British military installations in South Armagh would be premature.

The killing of a man in the Co Armagh village of Culloville appears to be linked to republican paramilitary activity in the area.

A man has died in hospital after being shot in the Co Armagh village of Culloville this morning.

A Co Monaghan man arrested by detectives investigating the 1998 Omagh bombing was granted bail by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

A Monaghan man who was arrested by detectives investigating the Omagh bombing was today charged in the Special Criminal Court in Dublin with membership of an unlawful organisation, the IRA.

THREE men including a Dubliner walking down the street were shot in the legs in punishment-style attacks in the North.

A man was shot and injured in a drive-by gun attack in Northern Ireland today.

A 50-year-old man is recovering in hospital today after being shot in both ankles in a paramilitary-style punishment attack overnight.

TWO of the men suspected of carrying out the Omagh bomb outrage are challenging legal action against them.

Two of the men suspected of carrying out the Omagh bomb outrage are challenging legal action against them, it emerged tonight.

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

Relatives of victims of the Omagh bombing are suing five men with alleged links to the Real IRA.