Omagh bomb probe arrests condemned as ‘over the top’

A LARGE-SCALE police and army operation to arrest a couple for questioning in connection with the Omagh bombing has been branded as “over the top” by a councillor who lives nearby.

Packie McDonald, a Sinn Féin councillor who knows the couple, also expressed surprise about the arrest of the woman as he believed she had “no political views”.

Two hundred police and soldiers were transported largely by helicopter into the South Armagh village of Jonesborough early on Tuesday morning.