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Proposed Omagh bombing human rights inquiries.
Fiosrúcháin chearta daonna faoi bhuamáil na hÓmaí molta.
A High Court judge in Belfast has indicated that it is too likely that the security services could have prevented the 1998 Omagh bombing attack if they had acted properly.
Tá sé tugtha le fios ag breitheamh Ardchúirte i mBéal Feirste gur róchosúil go bhféadfadh na seirbhísí slándála ionsaí buamála na hÓmaí i 1998 a chosc dá ngníomhóidís mar ba cheart roimh ré.
Among other things, Judge Mark Horner said, what they knew about the activities of republican dissidents on both sides of the border could have been taken into account by the security services.
I measc rudaí eile, a dúirt an Breitheamh Mark Horner, d’fhéadfadh a raibh ar eolas acu faoi ghníomaíochtaí easaontóirí poblachtánacha ar dhá thaobh na teorann a bheith curtha san áireamh ag na seirbhísí slándála.
A bomb blazed in a car left by the True IRA in central Omagh, Co Tyrone, on 15 August 1998, killed 29 people and two children who had not yet been born.
Maraíodh 29 duine agus beirt pháistí nach raibh tagtha ar an saol fós nuair a phléasc buama mór i ngluaisteán a bhí fághta ag an bhFíor- IRA i lár na hÓmaí, Co Thír Eoghain, ar an 15 Lúnasa 1998.
Judge Horner urged the British Government to set up a human rights inquiry into how the atrocity took place.
Mhol an Breitheamh Horner do Rialtas na Breataine fiosrúchán cearta daonna a bhunú faoi conas mar a tharla an t-uafás.
He said he would not order a public inquiry, as claimed by the relatives of the dead, as he did not want to be “prescriptive.”
Dúirt sé nach n-ordódh sé fiosrúchán poilbí, mar atá á éileamh ag gaolta na marbh, mar nár theastaigh uaidh a bheith “saintreorach.”
The judge said that although he did not have the power to give any order to the Irish Government, he hoped that a human rights inquiry would also be set up in the Republic.
Dúirt an breitheamh cé nach raibh sé de chumhacht aige aon ordú a thabhairt do Rialtas na hÉireann go raibh súil aige go mbunófaí fiosrúchán cearta daonna sa Phoblacht chomh maith.
It is already known that police informants in the North received a phone call eleven days before the massacre from an unknown person who claimed a bomb attack in Omagh on 15 August.
Tá a fhios cheana féin go bhfuair lucht faisnéise na bpóilíní sa Tuaisceart glao teileafóin aon lá dhéag roimh an sléacht ó dhuine anaithnid a mhaígh go mbeadh ionsaí buamála san Ómaigh ar an 15 Lúnasa.
That person did not give the police any information about exactly when or where it would happen.
Níor thug an duine sin aon eolas do na póilíní faoi cén t-am ná cén áit go baileach a dtarlódh sé.
However, informants did not pass on that information to the local Omagh police, as they should have done.
Níor chuir lucht faisnéise an t-eolas sin ar aghaidh chuig na póilíní áitiúla san Ómaigh, áfach, mar ba chóir dóibh.
In 2013, Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was killed in the bombing, sought a judicial review of the British Government’s decision not to set up a public inquiry.
In 2013, d’iarr Michael Gallagher, ar maraíodh a mhac Aiden sa bhuamáil, athbhreithniú breithiúnach ar chinneadh Rialtas na Breataine gan fiosrúchán poiblí a bhunú.
According to Northern Secretary of State at the time, Theresa Villiers, it would be best to allow the police ombudsman to conduct the inquiry.
Dar le Stát-Rúnaí an Tuaiscirt ag an am, Theresa Villiers, gurbh fhearr ligean d’ombudsman na bpóilíní an fiosrúchán a dhéánamh.