The Omagh bombing inquiry has opened, with its chairman Lord Turnbull promising it will undertake its task “rigorously and fearlessly”.


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Preliminary hearing into Omagh bomb inquiry begins

The inquiry is set to examine if steps could have been taken to prevent the 1998 bombing.

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Omagh bomb inquiry to hold first hearing

LONDON (Reuters) -     An independent inquiry into whether the deaths of 29 people in Omagh in 1998, the worst attack in decades of violence in Northern Ireland, could have been prevented held its first hearing on Tuesday. Read full story

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UK inquiry into 1998 Omagh bombing holds first hearing

The first public hearing in a long called for public inquiry into the Omagh bomb will start later.

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Long-awaited Omagh bomb inquiry set for first public hearing

The inquiry into the Omagh bomb is holding its first public hearing today.

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LONDON - An independent inquiry into whether the deaths of 29 people in Omagh in 1998, the worst attack in decades of violence in Northern Ireland, could have been prevented held its first hearing on Tuesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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The inquiry will hear opening statements from chair Lord Turnbull and his counsel Paul Greaney KC during a sitting at the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh.

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A long-awaited public inquiry into the 1998 Omagh car bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst atrocity of the so-called "Troubles" in the U.K. province, got underway with a minute's silence after a decades-long campaign.

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Omagh inquiry holds first hearing on killing of 29 in dissident republican car bombing

The probe, led by chairman Lord Turnbull, is examining whether the atrocity could reasonably have been prevented by UK authorities

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Bereaved families express hope as they attend long-awaited Omagh bomb inquiry

LONDON (Reuters) –     An independent inquiry into whether the deaths of 29 people in Omagh in 1998, the worst attack in decades of violence in Northern Ireland, could have been prevented held its first hearing on Tuesday. The Omagh bombing on Aug. 15, 1998 saw Irish nationalist militants opposed to the Good Friday peace deal signed earlier that year detonate a car bomb on a busy shopping street in the Northern Irish town. Twenty-nine people inc…

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