No one ever convicted of deadliest atrocity of Troubles, but injured and bereaved may be closer to knowing full story

The government’s decision to hold an inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bombing is the result of a long, lonely campaign by some of the injured and bereaved for truth and justice.

Chris Heaton-Harris’s announcement on Thursday about an independent statutory inquiry raises hope for the former, not the latter.

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