Omagh families feel ‘vindicated’ by judicial ruling

Stanley McCombe (left), who lost his wife Ann, and Michael Gallagher who lost his son Aiden in the Omagh bombing (PA)

The father of a man killed in the Omagh bombing has hailed the judicial call for fresh investigations into alleged cross-border security failings as the “beginning of the end” of his long quest for justice.

Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son Aiden died in the Real IRA attack in 1998, launched a legal challenge against the UK Government’s decision not to hold a public inquiry in 2013.