A Dublin court Monday sentenced a man being sued by relatives of those killed in the 1998 Omagh bombing to eight years in prison for being a member of dissident republican guerrilla group the Real IRA. Liam Campbell, 42, from County Louth near the Irish border with British-ruled Northern Ireland, was found guilty at Dublin’s non-jury Special Criminal Court on two charges of membership of an illegal organization. Campbell, a senior figure in the group responsible for killing 29 people in a car-bomb attack in the Northern Irish market town of Omagh nearly six years ago, has already been in jail since mid-2001 for Real IRA membership, but the conviction was quashed on appeal earlier this year. However, he was re-tried on the original charge and faced a subsequent count last week. Full Story
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