Using intelligence and phone mast data on Real IRA suspects may have also enabled authorities to prevent the 1998 attack, Mr Justice Horner found.

A VICTIMS' advocate who lost her brother in the 1998 Omagh bomb has set up a foundation in his memory, to encourage and support people facing challenges.

A judge in Belfast High Court found it was potentially plausible that the Real IRA attack in 1998 could have been prevented.

It comes after a judge found there are ‘plausible arguments’ that there was a ‘real prospect’ of preventing the 1998 atrocity.

Bereaved relatives have been pursuing justice for more than 20 years.

A judge has recommended the British government carry out an investigation into the Omagh bombing, and urged the Dublin government to do likewise, after finding "plausible arguments" that there was a "real prospect" of preventing the atrocity.

The lord chief justice’s office said the hold-up is due to the ‘sensitive nature of the material involved in the case’.

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.

Families bereaved by the Omagh bombing have put their lives "on hold" until a judge decides whether to order a public inquiry, a campaigner has said.

The Omagh bomb families deserve justice, Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said.

A Co Tyrone man who lost his wife, a daughter and unborn twins in the Omagh bomb is facing fresh grief after his second wife died suddenly.

A LOCAL council is set to consider whether it will take action over the addition of an unapproved plaque to a memorial to those killed and injured in the Omagh bombing.

THE husband of a woman killed in the Omagh bombing has glued a plaque to a memorial at the site of the atrocity stating that it was a "dissident republican terrorist" car bomb.