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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.

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…

An inquiry into the bombing in 1998 also heard how a then teenager described it as their ‘final loss of innocence’.

The sister of a young Spanish woman killed in the 1998 atrocity said it was the only support they had had in many years.