Omagh Inquiry: Timeline
Key dates in the inquiry's progress, assembled from its recorded milestones and hearing phases.
Hearing-phase dates are taken from the published hearing days; some earlier milestone dates are approximate where the inquiry has not published an exact date.
Milestones & hearing phases
Milestone
Hearing phase
Reports & costs
Still to come
Inquiry announced
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing.
Procedural / preliminary hearing
1 sitting day
Commemorative hearings begin
The inquiry began four weeks of commemorative and personal statement hearings, its first oral hearings.
Commemorative & impact hearings
14 sitting days
Evidential hearings
10 sitting days
Opening statements heard
The inquiry heard opening statements from core participants over two days; it stated these were not evidential hearings.
Final report (to be confirmed)
The inquiry has not yet reported.