The Supreme Court has ruled that the families and victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to the transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court as part of a civil case being brought against the five in the North.

Transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court are "intensely relevant" to a civil action being brought against them in the North by victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Supreme Court heard today.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal later this week against the High Court ruling that the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to certain, but not all, of the documentation they had been seeking from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

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.

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 only man jailed in connection with the Omagh bombing in the North claimed today that his short-term memory loss would interfere with his right to a fair hearing in a retrial.

Colm Murphy, who is awaiting a retrial for offences connected with the Omagh bombing in 1998, had the terms of his bail varied by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Colm Murphy whose conviction for an offence connected with the Omagh bombing in 1998 was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal last week walked free on bail from the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Colm Murphy, whose conviction for an offence connected with the Omagh bombing in 1998 was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal last week, remained in custody today after a technical hitch held up his expected release on bail.

A verdict in the case of Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, will not be delivered until Tuesday at the earliest, it was announced today.

The Special Criminal Court is expected to give its verdict on Friday in the trial of Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bomb.

A defence counsel for Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, submitted at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that there was "a credibility problem" with interviews conducted by the gardai with the accused.