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Omagh Bombing Inquiry confirms Chapter List for oral hearings 

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The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has confirmed the Chapter List for oral evidence hearings. The Chapters will help to provide structure to the Inquiry’s work and group relevant issues together for examination at oral evidence hearings.  

The oral evidence hearings will focus around 8 Chapters. The Chapters are as follows:  

  • Chapter 1: Commemorative and Personal Statement hearings (these took place in January and February this year) 
  • Chapter 2: Core Participant Opening Statements  
  • Chapter 3: The Bombing of Omagh  
  • Chapter 4: Previous incidents: overt material  
  • Chapter 5: The Peace Process and Security Normalisation  
  • Chapter 6: Previous incidents: covert material  
  • Chapter 7: Intelligence relating to the Omagh Bombing  
  • Chapter 8: Core Participant Closing Statements 

A note on the Chapter List has been produced to explain how each chapter will work and the key issues that will be examined.  

You can read the note on the Inquiry’s website here.  

The provisional list of issues that guides the Inquiry’s work has also been updated and is available here.   

The timetable and schedule for future evidence hearings will be confirmed in due course. Further information on previous hearings is available on the hearings section of the Inquiry’s website.