Concern expressed that Omagh Bombing Inquiry won’t uncover full truth

The hearing room at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh, Co Tyrone, ahead of the first substantive hearing in the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, which will examine whether the atrocity could reasonably have been prevented by UK authorities. Picture: PA

Concern has been expressed that a public inquiry into the Omagh bomb will not be able to uncover the full truth.

Claire Hayes, whose brother Alan Radford, 16, was among the 29 people killed in the dissident republican bomb attack in 1998, said she is very sceptical, with the Irish Government not being a full participant in the proceedings.