Detectives were tonight investigating if two men were shot dead before their bodies were found in a burning car close to the border.

A cross-border public inquiry is the only hope of getting to the truth behind the Omagh bombing, victims’ families said tonight after the only man jailed in connection with the attack had his conviction quashed.

SEVEN people were killed in five separate accidents on another black weekend on the roads.

The man whose body was found near Ashbourne, Co Meath yesterday has been identified.