Micheál Martin said that the call from ECB boss Christine Lagarde “won’t affect the March payment” but said the Government must look to intervene next winter should inflation rates require it

Clare Radford, whose brother Alan, 16, was killed, welcomed the announcement but said she had some reservations.

Families of Omagh bomb victims have welcomed the ordering of an independent inquiry into the atrocity.

The dissident republican bomb exploded in the Co Tyrone town on August 15, 1998, killing 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins. Hundreds more were injured

The criticism comes as the British government is expected to announce a decision on whether to hold an inquiry into the dissident republican blast which hit the Co Tyrone town on August 15 1998.

Families of the Omagh bomb victims have travelled a long road in their quest for justice for their loved ones. Here are some of the key developments in the years since the 1998 blast.

The British government is expected to announce on Thursday whether it will order a public inquiry into the 1998 Omagh bomb.

Last year, a High Court judge recommended that the UK Government carry out a human rights-compliant investigation into alleged security failings in the lead-up to the August 1998 attack.

David Trimble transformed from a man who had manned the barricades at the menacing Orange marches at Drumcree into a statesman who played a huge part in achieving the historic Good Friday agreement of 1998

The family of a five-month-old baby killed by a bomb in Co Tyrone 50 years ago have urged that his name be heard.

Michael Gallagher, who lost his 21-year-old son Aiden in the 1998 bombing, said the families have had no contact from either the British or Irish Governments

Here's some of what we have learned on the final day of the releases:

Then taoiseach Bertie Ahern told British prime minister Tony Blair that surveillance showed 'key people' were 'not doing an awful lot'

Then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told Tony Blair two weeks before the Omagh bombing that the Real IRA did not seem to be "overly active".

Brandon Lewis said that the Omagh families “deserve answers” but did not immediately commit to any new probe

Mr Gallagher, who gathered with other bereaved relatives to watch the judgment virtually from Omagh, urged the UK Government not to appeal against the findings

A judge has recommended the UK government carry out an investigation into the Omagh bombing, and urged the Irish Government to do likewise, after finding “plausible arguments” that there was a “real prospect” of preventing the atrocity.

In 2013, campaigners took legal action in an attempt to force an inquiry into the 1998 atrocity which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins