Real IRA to disband

The Real IRA terrorist group responsible for the 1998 Omagh bomb outrage tonight said it was to disband.

The organisation announced the move in a statement to be published tomorrow.

The statement, issued by men inside Portlaoise jail, said the Real IRA was at an end and only a few “corrupt” members of the Real IRA were “fraternising with criminal elements“.

It also confirmed the Real IRA involvement in the Omagh bombing, when 29 people were killed and another 200 injured, along with another group, believed to be the Continuity IRA.