More gardaí to give evidence in Omagh trial

More than a dozen extra gardaí are to be called to give evidence at the Omagh bomb civil case, it was revealed today.

Already 23 gardaí are to be witnesses at the request of the legal team acting for six Omagh families against five men they believe responsible for the 1998 atrocity, in which 29 people were slaughtered and hundreds more injured.