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The Omagh bombing inquiry has been underway for several days, but some of the victims’ families do not believe that it will reveal the truth due to the lack of transparency from the government. Claire Hayes, whose 16-year-old brother Alan Radford died in the bombing, stated that she expects “a very diluted version of the truth” will come out during the inquiry. She also expressed that the southern government needs to be more transparent to support the probe effectively.
The Real IRA (RIRA) committed the 1998 Omagh bombing, the largest atrocity of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, killing 29 people, including a woman who was pregnant with twins. While Ms Hayes anticipates that the families’ conclusions on whether the bomb could have been avoided will be accomplished, she is doubtful that the full truth will come out. She believes that there could be too many redactions and protections in place that could be made by the likes of MI5 and its informants.
The Irish Prime Minister, Michael Martin, has stated that he is happy to collaborate entirely with the inquiry as it is a cross-border issue established under UK law. The inquiry is aiming to investigate whether the UK government failed to prevent the bombing. Witnesses, first responders, and survivors are providing testimony over the four-week period in Oak Mall’s Strule Art Centre in Omagh.
The bombing occurred on a busy Saturday afternoon in 1998, four months after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement was signed. The RIRA, a group of dissident republican paramilitaries, disagreed with the Provisional IRA’s decision to call a ceasefire before the talks and continued to place car bombs in various Northern Ireland towns. The Omagh bombing was undoubtedly the RIRA’s most deadly attack, with nine children, including a baby, among the victims
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