A senior Scottish judge has been appointed as the chairman of an inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing.
Lord Turnbull said he was honoured by the appointment.
"I am very conscious of the devastation brought to the lives of so many by the atrocity which took place in Omagh in August 1998," he said. "I understand the determination of those who lost family and loved ones, and of those who were themselves injured, or whose family members were injured, to learn whether the attack could have been prevented."
Lord Turnbull added that he would be seeking views from people affected by the inquiry as soon as possible.The use of mobile phone analysisWhether disruption operations could or should have been mounted, which may have helped prevent the Real IRA attack During a hearing at the High Court in Belfast in 2021 examining whether there should be an investigation such as a public inquiry,The bomb exploded on 15 August 1998 and came four months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the peace deal that eventually brought an end to decades of violence known as the Troubles.It was carried out by dissident republican group the Real IRA, which split from the much larger Provisional IRA after objecting to its ceasefire of 1997.
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