A 43-year-old man has been charged with the murders of 29 people who were killed in the 1998 Omagh bomb.
The Real IRA attack was the worst single atrocity of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The victims included a woman who was pregnant with twins.
Seamus Daly, from Culloville, County Monaghan, was arrested by serious crime branch detectives in Newry on Monday.
He was one of four men ordered to pay more than £1.5m in damages to the victims' families in a civil case.
Denied involvement
Mr Daly is expected to appear in court on Friday, charged with the murders.
He will also be charged with an attempted bomb attack in Lisburn, County Antrim, in 1998.
No-one has ever been convicted of carrying out the Omagh bombing in a criminal court.
However, relatives of some of the victims brought a landmark civil action against five men they claimed were responsible, including Seamus Daly.
The court ruled that he and three of the others were responsible, and they were later ordered to pay more than £1.5m in damages.
Seamus Daly has always denied any involvement in the bombing.
Michael Gallagher, whose son Aidan was killed in the bombing, described the decision to bring charges as an "important and positive development".
He added: "We have put the police under pressure to pursue the investigation."
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