Charged: Seamus Daly.
A man has been charged with the murders of 29 people killed in the Real IRA bomb attack in Omagh in 1998.
Seamus Daly, from Culloville, County Monaghan, was arrested in Newry by detectives from the PSNI’s serious crime branch on Monday and taken to the serious crime suite at in Antrim for questioning.
As well as 29 murder charges, he also faces two charges in relation to the Omagh explosion and two charges in relation to an attempted explosion in Lisburn in April 1998.
The 43-year-old was one of four men ordered to pay more than £1.5 million in damages to the victims’ families in a civil case.
Daly has always denied any involvement in the bombing.
No-one has ever been convicted of carrying out the bombing in a criminal court.
Three schoolboys from Buncrana – Oran Doherty, James Barker and Sean McLaughlin – were killed in the explosion.
They had been a school trip on the day of the bombing.
Daly is due to appear at Dungannon Magistrates Court tomorrow morning.