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On 12 November 2025 a hearing took place before Lord Turnbull, the Chairman of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry. The hearing was convened to address a number of matters including the resolution of a legal argument in relation to the management of “Operationally Sensitive Material” within the Inquiry, the provision of information to Core Participants and the public about the progress of the Inquiry towards its Chapter 3 oral evidence hearing, and to provide a substantive update about the progress of the Inquiry’s wider work.
Operationally Sensitive Material is information which would be of assistance to terrorists and other criminals if it was to become known to them. It includes information such as how to create bombs or make bombs more deadly in their effect, and investigative techniques and tactics used by law enforcement to detect, disrupt and/or prosecute serious criminality.
The principal purpose of the hearing was for submissions to be made with a view to the Chairman granting a Restriction Order determining the way in which the large quantity of Operationally Sensitive Material held by the Inquiry would be managed. The submissions made by the Inquiry Legal Team were aimed at ensuring the Operationally Sensitive Material was disclosed to and handled by Core Participants in a way that was not unduly complex or time-consuming, while ensuring that the information did not become available to those who would use it for unlawful purposes.
Having heard submissions, the Chairman indicated he would hand down his ruling at a later date.
Chapter 3 of the Inquiry’s oral evidence is entitled ‘The Bombing of Omagh’. It will consider the events surrounding the bombing itself with a view to examining the methodology adopted by the terrorist and developing an understanding of who perpetrated the Omagh Bombing, there having been no successful criminal prosecution in the UK or the Republic of Ireland for participation in the attack. Chapter 3 will commence on 9 March 2026 and will take place in Belfast. The Inquiry has assembled a group of leading experts in a variety of forensic science disciplines, bomb construction, the use of warning calls and cell-site analysis for the purpose of the Chapter 3 oral evidence hearings.
Both Paul Greaney KC and Nick de la Poer KC are members of the Inquiry Legal Team: Paul is instructed to act as Counsel to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry; Nick is instructed as a member of the Inquiry’s counsel team. Both participated in the hearing on 12 November 2025 and both will be responsible for calling evidence during Chapter 3.
BBC – Disclosure of Omagh bombing material an ‘on-going process’
RTÉ – Govt responding to ‘comprehensive’ requests from Omagh inquiry
PA (Also appears in Belfast Telegraph, Cool FM, Irish Times, Irish Mirror, NewsLetter and UTV) – Agreement reached over Omagh Bombing Inquiry sensitive material, hearing told
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