State Papers: Ahern told Blair Real IRA not 'overly active' two weeks before Omagh bomb 

The scene in Omagh the morning after the bomb on August 15, 1998, which killed 31 people and injured over 200 others. Picture: Alan Lewis/Photopress Belfast

Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern told then British prime minister Tony Blair two weeks before the Omagh bombing in August 1998 that the Real IRA did not seem to be "overly active".

In a telephone conversation between the two leaders on July 31, the taoiseach shared information on the paramilitary splinter group with the British prime minister.