South Armagh republican Colm Murphy has died at the age of 70. 

He had been convicted but later acquitted of involvement in the Omagh bombing. 

He was later found liable in a civil court for the 1998 attack which killed 29 people. 

Murphy was at various points a member of the Provisional IRA, the INLA, the Real IRA, and was linked to the Óglaigh na hÉireann dissident group. 

The Belfast Telegraph’s security correspondent Allison Morris profiles him and explains what he was like in person. 

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