Leading suspects in a case that sent shock waves around the world
Writs were yesterday served on:
MICHAEL McKEVITT
Currently awaiting trial here for being a member of an unlawful organisation and directing its activities, 51-year-old Michael McKevitt is one of the best known faces in dissident republicanism.
Never convicted before of a terrorist offence, he is married to former IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands' sister, Bernadette, who as a member of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee has been fiercely critical of Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness' involvement in the peace process.
At the time of the August, 1998 Omagh bomb which claimed 29 lives, he and his family ran a T-shirt and photocopying business in Dundalk, Co Louth.
COLM MURPHY
The only person as yet to be convicted of involvement in the Omagh bomb, the 49-year-old publican and builder was imprisoned for 14 years for conspiring to cause the atrocity.
Murphy was found to have handed over two mobile phones to Seamus Daly one of which he borrowed from a foreman who lent it to him innocently.
Mr Justice Robert Barr described the father of four at his trial as a "republican terrorist of long standing, having been convicted of a series of offences of this nature both in this State and the United States" where he was jailed for a year in 1984 for trying to buy missiles, rifles and submachine guns.
LIAM CAMPBELL
The 38-year-old farmer from Dundalk was jailed by the Special Criminal Court last October in Dublin for five years for membership of an illegal group.
A raid by Special Branch officers on his home discovered an underground bunker under his bathroom, £2,000 in sterling, walkie-talkies, a radio scanner, two large paper body disposable suits and "what could be construed as bomb-making equipment, but no explosives".
Detective Superintendent Peter Maguire of Garda Special Branch told the court that Mr Campbell was a "committed officer" of a paramilitary group.
SEAMUS DALY
Seamus Daly was named during Colm Murphy's trial as the man who received the mobile phones used on the day of the bombing.
A builder by trade, he has been arrested twice by the police but was
released after saying nothing. A TV investigation into the bombing named him as a suspect. The 30-year-old was living at the time in a remote farmhouse in Culloville, Co Monaghan.
SEAMUS McKENNA
Originally based in the border town of Newry, Co Down, Seamus McKenna is a labourer.
Lawyers acting for the families believe from telephone records he also used one of the mobile phones handed over by Colm Murphy.
A mobile telephone mast at Omagh Further College of Education had recorded all calls to and from the mobile phones.
Those phone calls form a central plank of the case which is being taken by the families against the bombing suspects.
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