Judge recommends fresh probe into Omagh bombing

Some 29 people died in the Omagh bombing (Paul McErlane/PA)

A judge has recommended the UK government carry out an investigation into the Omagh bombing, and urged the Irish Government to do likewise, after finding “plausible arguments” that there was a “real prospect” of preventing the atrocity.

Delivering judgment in a legal challenge against the UK government’s refusal to hold a public inquiry, Justice Horner said a human rights compliant probe was needed to examine whether a more “proactive” security approach against dissident republican terrorists in the lead-up to the Real IRA bombing may have thwarted it.