The police investigation of the Omagh bombing has gained a "new momentum" and the killers will still be caught, according to a report on the atrocity.
The Deputy Chief Constable of the Merseyside force, Mr Mike Tonge, was called in by the Policing Board to review the investigation which was dogged by controversy and led to a serious dispute last year between the former PSNI Chief Constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, and Ms Nuala O'Loan, the Police Ombudsman.
Mr Tonge said the issues highlighted by Ms O'Loan were being fully addressed and that "we have been able to open doors that perhaps in the past would not have been quite so open".
The investigation remains "live and viable", he added.
Mr Tonge's report, published yesterday, claimed: "All parties within the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the associated agencies have proven to be helpful and constructive in support of moving this inquiry forward and maximising the intelligence and associated evidential opportunities."
Mr Michael Gallagher, whose son was one of the 29 who died in the "Real IRA" attack on Omagh in 1998, said he believed the police team investigating was a good team and he remained hopeful that the relatives "would see results".
Mr Gallagher addressed some of the complaints in relation to the sharing of intelligence among senior police officers raised by Ms O'Loan's report.
"We were assured that the Omagh investigation team and any other investigation team from now on will have access to all relevant information and intelligence. The person that will determine what is relevant will be the senior investigating officer," he told the BBC.
Mr Joe Byrne, an SDLP member of the Policing Board, welcomed the publication of Mr Tonge's report. "This is a positive and constructive report which confirms that a more professional and rigorous investigation to the Omagh bomb is in place under the senior investigating officer, Det Insp Baxter.
"Better detective investigation systems under an incident board structure are now in place. Given that the Omagh bomb was a major cross-Border bombing exercise, it is imperative that all possible North-South investigative possibilities are maximised at all levels to increase the potential of bringing the people responsible for the Omagh bomb before the courts for trial."
The Policing Board chairman, Prof Desmond Rea, accepted delivery of the report and hoped that justice would soon be done.
Only one man has been convicted in connection with the bombing. Colm Murphy was sentenced last year by the Special Criminal Court to 14 years for conspiracy to commit an explosion.
The families of the Omagh victims have also begun a £10 million civil case against five suspects in the case.
