GCHQ, the Government's organisation for intercepting electronic communications, was monitoring the conversations that the bombers had during the 90 minutes it took them to take the bomb from the Irish Republic to Omagh. There are transcripts of some of the bombers' snatched conversations as they transported their murderous cargo. And yet the information was not successfully exploited. It was not used to stop the bombing, and it was not used to help detectives bring the perpetrators to trial.
On August 14, the day before Omagh, the Royal Ulster Constabulary received an alert from the Garda Síochána that some sort of terrorist device was to be moved across the border imminently. Special Branch assessed this as another car bomb
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