Real IRA ‘plan another bombing outrage’

THE REAL IRA are planning another bomb attack similar to Omagh and have already been thwarted from doing so on several occasions, it emerged yesterday.

Speaking during the Dáil debate on the Nally Report which cleared gardaí from allegations they failed to pass on intelligence which could have averted the 1998 Omagh atrocity Justice Minister Michael McDowell claimed the Real IRA was intent on another massacre. "I emphasise that the Real IRA and the 32-County Sovereignty Committee, the political adjunct of the Real IRA, are planning, as we speak, to plant another bomb of this type," he said.

Mr McDowell said attempts to manufacture bombs similar to Omagh had already been prevented.