Omagh accused given month to find lawyers

FIVE men being sued by Omagh bomb victims are to be given a four-week deadline to bring in a new legal team.

Even though lawyers for Real IRA chief Michael McKevitt and the other defendants have pulled out, the €20 million civil action by relatives of those killed in the massacre is proceeding.

In a hearing at the Northern Ireland High Court yesterday, barristers for the families taking the landmark case pressed for access to papers on criminal trials involving the five in the Republic.