Fermanagh and Omagh District Council emphatically reversed a motion opposing the extradition of a man held liable for the Omagh bomb last night, two weeks after nationalist backing of the proposal sparked anger among relatives of those killed.
The motion to end council support for Liam Campbell passed with support from 29 councillors, six opposing it and one abstaining.
Sinn Féin, SDLP and some independent members of its policy and resources committee backed the proposal by independent Bernice Swift on July 8 to write to the taoiseach voicing concerns about Liam Campbell's extradition to Lithuania.
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Campbell (58) was found liable in a civil court for the 1998 Real IRA atrocity along with three other men in 2009.
He was arrested in Dundalk in December 2016 on foot of a European Arrest Warrant issued by Lithuanian authorities for allegedly organised smuggling of weapons for the Real IRA between the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007.
The High Court in Dublin ordered Campbell's extradition following a lengthy legal battle, with a judge concluding there was no evidence he would be subjected to inhuman and degrading prison conditions.
The majority of the committee voted to record their opposition to the extradition on the grounds that Campbell's human rights would be breached by poor prison conditions in the Baltic state.
Within 24 hours the SDLP council group leader apologised, saying the party would be opposing it at the full council meeting.
Sinn Féin said it supported the motion on the basis that its "council group was of the view that the human rights concerns raised merited discussion by the full council".