Parliament’s rules watchdog has three-and-a-half months to decide whether to release a secret transcript, amid efforts to establish whether a 1998 bombing could have been prevented.
Omagh Bombing Inquiry solicitor Tim Suter has asked for information about an allegation “that police investigators into previous attacks in Moira, Portadown, Banbridge and Lisburn did not have access to intelligence materials which may have reasonably enabled them to disrupt the activities of dissident republican terrorists” in the Co Tyrone town.
