Omagh Bombing Inquiry
OngoingOmagh Inquiry
Statutory inquiry into whether the 15 August 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh — which killed 29 people and unborn twins — could reasonably have been prevented, focusing on intelligence sharing between UK and Irish state bodies. Chapter 3 substantive evidence hearings delayed as of January 2026. Irish government drafting legislation to allow Garda officers to give oral testimony.
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Carla Lockhart (Democratic Unionist Party)
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The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing.
SourceThe UK Government published the inquiry's Terms of Reference.
SourceThe inquiry held its first preliminary hearing at the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh.
SourceThe inquiry began four weeks of commemorative and personal statement hearings, its first oral hearings.
SourceThe inquiry heard opening statements from core participants over two days; it stated these were not evidential hearings.
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