Representatives of the families of the Omagh victims yesterday expressed relief at the conclusion of the harrowing series of inquests on their loved ones, but said their campaign for justice would continue.
Mr Stanley McCombe, who lost his wife, Ann, in the bombing, said the bottom line for all the families was that the perpetrators should be brought to justice.
He believed there were people who would really like to help in this, and he hoped they would come forward.
The families had been reassured by their meeting on Monday with senior RUC and Garda officers who were overseeing the investigation into the bombing, and he had no doubt both police forces would eventually succeed in arresting the bombers.
Mr Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the atrocity, said the inquest had been harrowing and had achieved little other than carrying out the duty of the State. "Our dead weren't officially recognised as dead until today."
He said, however, that some of the video material shown had been particularly horrific and should be shown widely as a warning of what a 500-lb bomb could do to human beings.
Over the past two years, people had continually told the relatives to look to the future, "yet here we are being forced to look back", he said. Final closure for the families of the dead would come only when the people who had perpetrated this murderous act were put behind bars.
Mrs Marion Radford, whose son Alan, aged 16, was killed, said she was glad she had attended the inquest, although she had been unsure whether to do so or not.
A lot of unanswered questions which she had were addressed.
She had met the policeman who had carefully and with dignity taken care of Alan's body, and that had given her comfort.
Mrs Radford agreed that she would like to see the inquest rules changed so that murder could be included in the findings as the cause of death. "I mean, murder is murder," she said.