Murphy remanded in custody

Colm Murphy was further remanded until next October by the Special Criminal Court today while he awaits the outcome of his legal challenge to a retrial on a conspiracy charge connected with the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died.

His solicitor Mr Michael Finucane told the court that the Supreme Court has yet to hear an appeal against an earlier High Court decision which refused an application to halt the retrial.