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14/01/2013
Omagh Bomb: Retrial Begins
A civil retrial of two men being sued for their part in the 1998 Omagh bombing has begun.
Colm Murphy, from Dundalk, and Seamus Daly, from County Monaghan, are currently defending legal action taken against them by relatives of some of the 29 people killed in the explosion.
The retrial follows their successful appeal against being held liable for the attack.
The Omagh bomb killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, when it went off in the County Tyrone town in August 1998. The Real IRA admitted carrying out the attack.
A lawyer for relatives of the victims has opened the case today, telling the court that Mr Murphy provided mobile phones to the bombers, while Mr Daly used one of the phones during the bomb run between Dundalk and Omagh.
Two other men found responsible for the attack failed to have the findings against them overturned.
Convicted Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt and dissident republican Liam Campbell have decided to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to overturn the ruling.
No-one has ever been criminally convicted of carrying out the attack.
McKevitt, who is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence, Campbell, a farmer from County Louth currently caught up in gun smuggling allegations, Dundalk builder and publican Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly, from County Monaghan, were all held liable for the bombing in a civil ruling in 2009.
They were all ordered to pay £1.6m in compensation.
Mr Murphy and Mr Daly's challenges to the verdict were upheld.
(IT)
Colm Murphy, from Dundalk, and Seamus Daly, from County Monaghan, are currently defending legal action taken against them by relatives of some of the 29 people killed in the explosion.
The retrial follows their successful appeal against being held liable for the attack.
The Omagh bomb killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, when it went off in the County Tyrone town in August 1998. The Real IRA admitted carrying out the attack.
A lawyer for relatives of the victims has opened the case today, telling the court that Mr Murphy provided mobile phones to the bombers, while Mr Daly used one of the phones during the bomb run between Dundalk and Omagh.
Two other men found responsible for the attack failed to have the findings against them overturned.
Convicted Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt and dissident republican Liam Campbell have decided to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights in a bid to overturn the ruling.
No-one has ever been criminally convicted of carrying out the attack.
McKevitt, who is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence, Campbell, a farmer from County Louth currently caught up in gun smuggling allegations, Dundalk builder and publican Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly, from County Monaghan, were all held liable for the bombing in a civil ruling in 2009.
They were all ordered to pay £1.6m in compensation.
Mr Murphy and Mr Daly's challenges to the verdict were upheld.
(IT)
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