Omagh relatives seek church backing for cross-border probe

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland will today be asked by some of the relatives of victims of the Omagh bomb to back their campaign for a cross-border inquiry into the atrocity.

Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was among 29 people killed in the Real IRA bomb attack in August 1998, will lead a delegation which will meet Archbishop Sean Brady at his residence in Armagh.