Omagh bombing inquiry chair vows to work ‘rigorously and fearlessly’

Inquiry into 1998 attack will ask whether state authorities' could have acted to prevent mass killing

The chair of the public inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing by the Real IRA, the single worst atrocity in Northern Ireland's Troubles, has said on its first day that its task would be undertaken rigorously and fearlessly".

Twenty-nine people including a woman expecting twins were killed in the dissident republican attack and more than 200 were injured.