State ‘willing’ to let gardaí testify in Omagh case

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell told lawyers representing the families of the victims of the Omagh bombing that the Government was “willing” to let gardaí testify in a 14 million legal action they are taking against five men they alleged were involved in the outrage.

However, Mr McDowell stopped short of giving any undertaking to release the transcript of the Michael McKevitt trial to aid the action.

McKevitt, from Dundalk, Co Louth, was at the time the alleged leader of the Real IRA, the group believed responsible for the Omagh bomb.