A Monaghan man charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing in 1998 has been remanded in custody.
Prominent republican Seamus Daly (43) of Cullaville, Co. Monaghan, was arrested on Monday in the carpark of a hospital in Newry, where his wife is due to give birth today.
He appeared at Dungannon Magistrates' Court amid a heavy security presence this morning.
He faces a total of 33 charges, a combination related to the murders of 29 people and two others relating to an attempted explosion in Lisburn four months earlier.
He is one of four men already found liable for the car bomb. During a civil case, he was ordered to pay out stg£1.6 million to the victim's families.
The PSNI announced the charges last night.
Detectives investigating the 1998 Omagh bombing charge 43 yo man with the murders of 29 people and other offences.
— PSNI (@PoliceServiceNI) April 10, 2014
Security expert Alan Murray spoke to Newstalk Breakfast earlier.
The 1998 explosion in Omagh has been described as the worst single terrorist attack of the Northern Ireland troubles, coming just months after the Good Friday agreement.
No-one has ever been successfully convicted of the bombing in a criminal court.
