There remain questions about how authorities in both Ireland and the UK handled the events around the 1998 bombing that killed 29 people.

Watch live as the Omagh bombing public inquiry holds its first hearing on Tuesday, 28 January. Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed in the attack carried out by the Real IRA in the Co Tyrone town in August 1998 in what was the biggest single atrocity of the Troubles.

But the Omagh bomb was by far the RIRA's most deadly attack. Nine children, including a baby, were among the dead. More than 200 other people were wounded, some of whom survived with life-changing injuries. Three days after the 1998 attack, the Real IRA released a statement claiming responsibility for the explosion.

An independent public inquiry into a 1998 bombing in Omagh in Northern Ireland in which 29 people were killed and 220 injured, the worst atrocity of "The Troubles," opened with testimony from victims' families.

Claire Hayes, whose brother Alan Radford was killed in the blast, said the Irish Government should be a full participant.

Nolan spoke to Alan Rodgers from the Ulster Herald and to Claire Hayes - her brother Alan Radford was killed in the Omagh bomb - he was just 16. We use cookies to give you the best online experience.