UK govt funding for Omagh case halted

British government funding to help the Omagh families take civil action against those they believe were responsible for the Real IRA bomb which killed 29 people has been put on hold, a court was told today.

The Northern Ireland High Court heard that Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer accepted a judgment last month that he had overstepped his powers and the mechanism for providing some £800,000 (€1.18m) to help the civil action was unlawful.