THE Northern Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has appointed Lord Andrew Turnbull as Chair of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. Lord Andrew Turnbull served as Cabinet Secretary in the UK from 2002 to 2005. In February, the Secretary of State announced the government’s intention to establish an independent statutory inquiry into the preventability of the […]
Public Inquiry into Omagh bombing confirmed
THE NI Secretary of State, Christopher Heaton-Harris, has announced an independent statutory inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bomb. This announcement follows a long-running legal action brought by Michael Gallagher a relative of one of the 29 people who died after the bomb exploded on August 15, 1998. In July 2021, the High Court found […]