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A tribute written by Esther Gibson’s four younger sisters was read to public inquiry into the 1998 bombing on Monday.

Charlie Flanagan questioned whether all key information held in the Republic of Ireland would be made available to the UK inquiry into the bombing.

Geraldine Breslin’s son Gareth spoke publicly about his mother’s death for the first time as he gave evidence to the public inquiry into the bombing.

Debra-Anne Cartwright, 20, was working in a beauty salon in Omagh on the day of the attack in 1998.

Mary Grimes, Avril Monaghan, Maura Monaghan and Avril’s unborn twins died in 1998 attack, inquiry hears

It came on the second day of commemorative hearings at the Strule Arts Centre in the Co Tyrone town.

Mary Grimes, her daughter Avril Monaghan, and her granddaughter Maura died in the atrocity.

Breda Devine was killed in the dissident republican bomb attack in the Co Tyrone town in 1998.

Claire Hayes recalled her brother Alan Radford, 16, to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry on Wednesday.

Claire Hayes, whose brother Alan Radford was killed in the blast, said the Irish Government should be a full participant.

The 1998 Good Friday agreement is commonly seen to have ended what were euphemistically termed “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland. However, just four months after the peace accord was signed, an attack on the town of Omagh resulted in the greatest loss of life in any single incident of the…