Almost twenty three years after the Omagh bomb, a judge has ruled there needs to be an investigation into plausible allegations it could have been prevented. Twenty nine people - including a woman pregnant with twins - died in the Real IRA bombing in 1998. Over two hundred people were injured - it was the biggest single atrocity in the history of the Troubles - and happened just months after the signing of the Good Friday agreement. Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Julian O'Neill | BBC New

Devastating accounts of the scene of the Omagh bombing were described as 'hell' at the public inquiry today. Police officers who were there that day in August 1998, including those who helped recover the dead, have been giving testimony to the inquiry for the first time. | BBC Newsline