The Real IRA first entered the annals of terrorist atrocities when dissidents set off a 500lb bomb in the centre of Omagh in August 1998, killing 29 people.

There has been a great deal of hand ringing and talk of moral values since the death of Constable Ronan Kerr of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, who was killed after an armed Irish republican group placed a bomb under his car, which was parked outside his house in Omagh, County Tyrone. Understandably, Matt Baggott, the Chief Constable of the British police force in Ireland lauded ...

Caller gave incorrect information on the location of the device, which went off at a road junction where officers would have been expected to put up a cordon around a nearby school

Prime minister has been strongly criticised for refusing to allow the all-party Northern Ireland affairs committee access to intelligence used in the investigation into the bomb attack that killed 29 people in 1998

Downing Street defends its refusal to share intelligence over the 1998 Omagh bombing in which 29 people died.

A new investigation must be set up to examine whether the state withheld vital intelligence from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers, a parliamentary report said.

The only person found guilty of the 1998 Omagh bombing in which 29 died – Northern Ireland's worst single atrocity – has had his conviction dismissed in a retrial in the Irish Republic

Another attack like the Omagh bomb could happen because a blind eye is being turned to dissidents, it is claimed.

The government insulted MPs scrutinising an Omagh bomb report when it denied full access, a Commons committee says.

THE government insulted MPs trying to scrutinise a key Omagh bomb report when it denied full access, an influential Commons committee said today.