A public inquiry into the murders of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, in the Omagh bombing in 1998 will get under way in the town today.
Families of those who died will begin outlining their personal stories and the impact of their loss.
The inquiry was established to examine whether the bomb attack in Omagh by the dissident republican group the Real IRA could have been prevented.
But before the examination of evidence begins, the focus will be on the lives that were lost on a sunny Saturday afternoon in August 1998.
More than 200 were injured in the huge blast, many of them seriously.
The inquiry chairperson Lord Andrew Turnball has made it…