HUNT FOR THE BOMBERS GOES ON
HUNT FOR THE BOMBERS GOES ON
UNRELENTING efforts to round up the gang that bombed Omagh a year ago, will continue on both sides of the Ulster border, police chiefs have pledged. Detectives from Belfast and Dublin met in Omagh this week, for talks on the progress of the investigation into the atrocity,
RUC Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan, has also given the go-ahead for an independent review of his team's inquiry, by a British police officer.
Only one man has so far been charged in connection with the bombing, which left 29 people dead and hundreds injured and maimed.
South Armagh man, Colm Murphy was charged last February in the Dublin Special Criminal Court with conspiring to cause an explosion.
The 48-year-old, with an address in Ravensdale, near Dundalk, was also charged with membership of an illegal organisation.
It is believed that up to 60 people were directly involved in the atrocity, or had advance knowledge that an attack was being planned.
The majority of them have been questioned. Detectives have more or less established who assembled the 350lb bomb, and how it was transported, but those involved are still free. RUC Det Chief Supt, Eric Anderson, and Assistant Garda Commissioner, Kevin Carty, who are heading the investigation, were at the Omagh talks.
The independent review of the inquiry is part of normal procedures into serious crime.
Last night, Dublin premier, Bertie Ahern, gave an assurance that the British and Irish governments would work together "to bring about a situation where no other family in these islands or further afield experiences the grief and loss which you have suffered".
UNRELENTING efforts to round up the gang that bombed Omagh a year ago, will continue on both sides of the Ulster border, police chiefs have pledged. Detectives from Belfast and Dublin met in Omagh this week, for talks on the progress of the investigation into the atrocity,
RUC Chief Constable, Ronnie Flanagan, has also given the go-ahead for an independent review of his team's inquiry, by a British police officer.
Only one man has so far been charged in connection with the bombing, which left 29 people dead and hundreds injured and maimed.
South Armagh man, Colm Murphy was charged last February in the Dublin Special Criminal Court with conspiring to cause an explosion.
The 48-year-old, with an address in Ravensdale, near Dundalk, was also charged with membership of an illegal organisation.
It is believed that up to 60 people were directly involved in the atrocity, or had advance knowledge that an attack was being planned.
The majority of them have been questioned. Detectives have more or less established who assembled the 350lb bomb, and how it was transported, but those involved are still free. RUC Det Chief Supt, Eric Anderson, and Assistant Garda Commissioner, Kevin Carty, who are heading the investigation, were at the Omagh talks.
The independent review of the inquiry is part of normal procedures into serious crime.
Last night, Dublin premier, Bertie Ahern, gave an assurance that the British and Irish governments would work together "to bring about a situation where no other family in these islands or further afield experiences the grief and loss which you have suffered".
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Publisher: SUNDAY LIFE
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Published Date: 15-Aug-99
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