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A man is to face murder charges over the Omagh bombing, the Press Association news agency has reported. The report said the Director of Public Prosecutions has instructed police to bring charges against one man relating the 1998 atrocity, when 29 people died. It is understood the man is already in custody in Northern Ireland facing a series of terrorist charges. A police spokesperson said "significant time and resources" had been dedicated to the ongoing investigation. "The current position is that the senior investigating officer has received instructions from the DPP which are being processed," the spokesperson said. Dissident republican...

Man charged over Omagh bombing A 34-year-old man has been charged with supplying the car used to plant the Real IRA bomb which killed 29 people in Omagh, County Tyrone in 1998. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said the man, from Dundalk in the Irish Republic, would appear before a magistrate in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh on Wednesday morning. The man was detained by police in the border town of Newry, County Down - a few miles north of Dundalk - on Monday. The PSNI said that the 34-year-old had been charged by detectives from the Omagh bomb investigation team...

Report: suspected IRA bombmaker is a reporter Yaakov Katz Jul. 15, 2003 The British media reported Monday that an Irish national who was arrested by security forces on suspicion that he came to Israel to train Palestinian terrorists, is a journalist and not a member of the Real IRA. The Shin Bet confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the man was arrested Saturday afternoon and was being questioned. Britain's The Observer reported on Sunday that a massive manhunt was under way for the Irish bombmaker, traveling on a British passport, who is believed to be a member...

A suspected IRA dissident, believed to be training Palestinian militants in the use of explosives, has reportedly been arrested in Israel. Security sources said the man, who was not identified, was on Saturday in the West Bank town of Ramallah and is being questioned by the Shin Bet security agency. The Observer reported that Israeli security forces were seeking an IRA dissident said to be training Palestinian militants in bomb-making. The newspaper said the man was believed to have entered Israel last month on a British passport and crossed over to a Palestinian area in the West Bank. The newspaper...

Israeli police and Shin Bet agents are searching for an IRA bomb expert who is believed to be training Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank, the British Observer magazine reported Sunday. According to the report, the man arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport three weeks ago, travelling on a British passport. The man, whose identity is known to the magazine, was a member of the Provisional IRA in Newry, but switched his allegiance four years ago to the Real IRA. The magazine quoted Israeli sources as saying that the man traveled on his own passport posing as a tourist when...

The Real IRA statement conceding the futility of its armed campaign comes after a year of acrimony over 'financially motivated conduct', writes Liz Walsh AFTER the deaths of more than 30 innocent civilians, millions of euros' worth of damage, families torn apart and more than 50 jailed here and in England, Real IRA prisoners have conceded the futility of continuing its armed campaign. The significance of this development coming from the Real IRA prisoners cannot be overstated, given that among this core group are founder members of thatorganisation. What the Real IRA has done, for the first time since its...

Michael McKevitt, the founder of the terrorist group behind the Omagh bomb atrocity, is likely to serve less than two more years in jail in a deal designed to cover up MI5's role in Ireland. The Real IRA, the organisation McKevitt formed five years go, was responsible for carrying out the massacre in 1998, the single biggest loss of life in the Northern Ireland Troubles. Relatives of those killed in the bombing condemned any deal last night and claimed it was in place to prevent 'dirt coming out about events surrounding the bombing'. McKevitt had been facing up to 15...