Republicans challenged to testify in Omagh retrial

Two republicans being sued by relatives of victims of the Omagh bomb have been challenged to break their silence and testify in court.

Evidence that allegedly links Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly to the 1998 Real IRA attack demands an explanation, a lawyer for the bereaved families told Belfast High Court as the men’s civil retrial began.

Murphy, a builder and publican from Dundalk, Co Louth, and Daly, a bricklayer from Cullaville, Co Monaghan, were ordered to face new proceedings after they successfully appealed against a landmark ruling which had found them and two other men liable for the atrocity.