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Cate McCurry

Secretary of state fell asleep during meeting with Omagh bomb families

Omagh bomb campaigner Stanley McCombe who lost his wife Ann in the 1998 atrocity (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Archive)

Families of those who lost loved ones in the Omagh bomb have criticised former secretary of states for Northern Ireland for refusing to hold a public inquiry into the atrocity, and revealed one minister fell asleep during a meeting.

Stanley McCombe, who lost his wife, Ann, in the 1998 atrocity, said there had been 13 secretaries of state since the Omagh bomb, prior to Chris Heaton-Harris, who had failed to order the public inquiry.

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