The Real IRA's legacy of violence

With the deaths of 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Real IRA succeeded in carrying out the worst single atrocity in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

With the deaths of 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Real IRA succeeded in carrying out the worst single atrocity in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

In the following months the group was also responsible for numerous explosions, booby traps and shootings as well as the discovery of several caches of arms.

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