merrion street

“I met today with representatives of the Omagh Support and Self-help Group

and received from them a copy of a report they have on events relating to

the Omagh bombing on 15 August 1998.

I am grateful to the Omagh group for providing me with a copy of the report

and I will read and consider it fully.  I have indicated to the Group that

I will also forward the report to the Garda Commissioner for his

consideration.

The atrocity at Omagh was a callous and brutal act of murder carried out by

people with no regard for human life.  I share with the Omagh relatives and

with all right-thinking people the aim of doing all we reasonably can to

try to prevent any repeat of such an awful tragedy."