Omagh bombing inquiry chair vows to work ‘rigorously and fearlessly’
Inquiry into 1998 attack will ask whether ‘state authorities’ could have acted to prevent mass killing
February 2023
Green light for Omagh bombing inquiry is belated win in long campaign for truth
Omagh bombing: independent inquiry announced into 1998 attack
September 2022
Lyra McKee: man jailed for possessing gun used to kill journalist
Niall Sheerin from Derry sentenced to seven years in prison, but not in connection with murder itself
May 2022
Omagh bomb suspect Liam Campbell extradited to Lithuania
Lyra McKee’s sister says Sinn Féin letter leak exploits her murder for politics
July 2021
Omagh bombing could have been prevented, says high court judge
The long read
‘While there’s British interference, there’s going to be action’: why a hardcore of dissident Irish republicans are not giving up
January 2021
Former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt dies aged 71
One of four men found liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing, though he always denied being involved
April 2020
British and Irish journalists mark a year since Lyra McKee murder
NUJ members celebrate the ‘fearlessly questioning’ legacy of reporter shot dead during violent clashes in Derry
May 2019
Real IRA founder who plotted bombing while Prince Charles was in Ireland dies in prison
Seamus McGrane died from a suspected heart attack while serving an 11½-year sentence for directing terrorism
April 2019
Lyra McKee: priest receives standing ovation after calling out politicians – video
Lyra McKee funeral: politicians urged to seize the moment
March 2019
Brexit is a 'huge help' to Irish republicanism, says dissident leader
Saoradh party’s chair believes exit from EU will fuel violent resistance to British rule
October 2017
Real IRA founder guilty of bomb plan during Prince Charles visit
‘Arsenal of weapons and explosives’ was found at home of Seamus McGrane before Prince Charles’s 2015 visit to Ireland
August 2017
Omagh bomb victims' families to sue Northern Ireland police chief
Relatives accuse George Hamilton of investigative failings that allowed those behind 1998 atrocity to escape conviction
December 2016
Real IRA figure Aidan 'The Beast' O'Driscoll shot dead in Cork street
The alleged former chief of staff of the republican dissident group was allied to Alan Ryan, who was killed in Dublin’s gangland turf wars
September 2016
European court of human rights dismisses Omagh bombing appeal
Strasbourg court rules that civil trial of two men found liable for single worst atrocity of Northern Ireland’s Troubles was not unfair
Greenslade
BBC programme used anonymous single source to smear Gerry Adams
Roy Greenslade
Spotlight documentary alleged that the Sinn Féin leader ordered a murder but Irish police say Adams ‘does not feature’ in their inquiries into the killing
Undercover British army unit ‘saved life’ of Ulster loyalist leader Johnny Adair
Former soldier’s book reveals how assassination bid was thwarted by ramming a surveillance van into a motorbike used by two UDA hitmen
