WE'LL HUNT DOWN THE OMAGH BOMBERS
We'll hunt down Omagh bombers
RUC chief vows to make further blast arrests
RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan yesterday looked ahead to further arrests in the cross-border police bid to track down the Omagh bombers.
He made his comment in Dublin 24 hours after the first man to be charged in connection with last August's outrage, 48-year-old Colm Murphy, appeared in the Republic's capital's anti-terrorist Special Criminal Court.
Murphy, originally from Northern Ireland, but with an address in Co Louth, was remanded in custody until next month, accused of conspiracy to cause an explosion and membership of an illegal organisation.
Two men arrested by police in the Republic for questioning about the bomb outrage were released without charge last night.
They were held at Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, for close to the maximum 72 hours that the Republic's Offences Against the State Act - tightened in response to the Omagh attack - permits suspects to be kept in custody.
The pair were among a total of seven men rounded up this week on the southern side of the border by Gardai detectives working in close co-operation with their RUC counterparts.
Francis Mackey, 44-year-old chairman of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, a political group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process, whose reputed Real IRA military wing carried out the Omagh bombing, was released early yesterday.
RUC head Sir Ronnie, who was in Dublin for a lunchtime function, said: "I am extremely confident that more people will, be brought before the courts in due course - there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done."
RUC chief vows to make further blast arrests
RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan yesterday looked ahead to further arrests in the cross-border police bid to track down the Omagh bombers.
He made his comment in Dublin 24 hours after the first man to be charged in connection with last August's outrage, 48-year-old Colm Murphy, appeared in the Republic's capital's anti-terrorist Special Criminal Court.
Murphy, originally from Northern Ireland, but with an address in Co Louth, was remanded in custody until next month, accused of conspiracy to cause an explosion and membership of an illegal organisation.
Two men arrested by police in the Republic for questioning about the bomb outrage were released without charge last night.
They were held at Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, for close to the maximum 72 hours that the Republic's Offences Against the State Act - tightened in response to the Omagh attack - permits suspects to be kept in custody.
The pair were among a total of seven men rounded up this week on the southern side of the border by Gardai detectives working in close co-operation with their RUC counterparts.
Francis Mackey, 44-year-old chairman of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, a political group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace process, whose reputed Real IRA military wing carried out the Omagh bombing, was released early yesterday.
RUC head Sir Ronnie, who was in Dublin for a lunchtime function, said: "I am extremely confident that more people will, be brought before the courts in due course - there is still a tremendous amount of work to be done."
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
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Published Date: 26-Feb-99
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