The inquiry has ended for the day and we will now pause our live coverage.

We have heard tributes to bride-to-be Esther Gibson, with a poem read by her sister Caroline Martin.

The mothers of Buncrana schoolboys Shaun McLaughlin and Oran Doherty had their statements read out by relatives. Both said time had not healed their heartache.

Shaun and Oran, alongside James Barker and two Spanish exchange students, Rocio Abad Ramos and Fernando Blasco Baselga, were killed after the group stopped in the town after a trip to the Ulster American Folk Park.

Finally, the inquiry heard from Ronan McGrory, who was on the same trip and was best friends with Shaun. He's the first survivor the inquiry has heard from and he spoke of his guilt and how the day has haunted him for the past 26 years.

Today's live page was edited by Caroline McClatchey, with help from writers Davy Wilson, Barry O'Connor and Jessica Lawrence.

More on today's proceedings can be found here.

Our live coverage will resume tomorrow when the inquiry sits again at 10:00 GMT.

Lord Turnbull says he is grateful for Mr McGrory recounting the events of that day.

"It is very clear from your evidence that the effects of the bombing have been both powerful and long lasting, at times they appear to have been overwhelming.

"It is very generous of you to agree to explain the horrors of that day to the inquiry.

"Your evidence has been of real value and I am very grateful to you Mr McGrory."

One of the nurses looking after Mr McGrory in hospital was the wife of the policeman who helped him in the aftermath of the bombing.

He still doesn't know their names.

"Every day I think about the bomb and it never leaves me. I do not think that it will never leave me.

"The trauma and injuries have continued to haunt me and this can be very exhausting."

He resents that he continued to reach milestones in his life, but his friend Shaun never got to.

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Mr McGrory says that it took him about 20 years to seek counselling and bereavement support to understand the psychological toll of the bombing.

He says he felt "left behind" as he was never offered any support in the aftermath.

Mr McGrory says he now has a wife and two children, and that this has brought up "new feelings".

He says he often sees Oran Doherty's family in Buncrana and "feels bad".

Trips to other market towns are also difficult, as well as loud sounds, Mr McGrory says.

"If it wasn't for football, I probably would have been worse off," says Mr McGrory, who is now married with two children.

The lawyer asks him that as he got older - did he get involved in risk-taking behaviours and lose motivation for further education and work?

Mr McGrory replies: "Yes."

He is then asked because of what had happened to him in Omagh, "you just didn't care about life and had no goals".

He replied: "Not really no."

He says the news of Oran, Shaun and James's deaths hit him like a "tonne of bricks".

The lawyer for the inquiry then reads from Mr McGrory's statement...

"I was overcome with instant guilt because Shaun and I were the older ones and we were supposed to look after the younger boys.

"I just remember crying inconsolably, particularly because I knew the funerals had already taken place."

Mr McGrory says the bombing has changed his whole life, and that he and his best friend Shaun had been due to start secondary school together.

The injuries meant he had to delay starting school for a number of weeks.

He's asked by the inquiry's lawyer what he was told about his friends and the bombing when he was in hospital.

"I never got any answers," says Mr McGrory.

The lawyer asks if that was to protect him and he replies: "Yes."

He says he heard about his friends from the news.

"A nurse wheeled a TV in and put it on.

"I was on my own and Brian Kennedy was singing Danny Boy and that's when they were reading all the names.

"That's when I found out they were dead. I can't listen to that song any more."

Mr McGrory suffered a number of injuries, including a ruptured spleen, internal bleeding, burns to his face as well as a large volume of shrapnel in his leg and above his eyes.

Following the bombing, he spent a number of weeks in Omagh Hospital before being transferred to Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry.

Over the last 26 years, he has been in and out of hospital for treatment for injuries he sustained.

On the day of the bombing, Mr McGrory says he was wearing a Liverpool football top.

When asked by doctors in Omagh Hospital if they could cut the top, he said no because he loved that top.

Mr McGrory is remembering being carried to safety by a policeman.

"There was a holy medal placed into my hand but I don't know where it came from.

"I was still holding it and they were trying to take it out of my hand and they couldn't get my hand released to let go of it."

Mr McGrory says that the boys were all together at the time of the explosion.

In a bid to comfort the families, he is asked after the bomb went off and he came to if he remembered anything and he said no.

It is put to him by the inquiry's lawyer that because Shaun and Oran did not come to, they would not have known what happened either and Mr McGrory agrees.

Shortly after visiting the shops, Mr McGrory says they were asked to move across the street by a police officer.

The boys were cooperating, but were "messing around" as young boys do and not paying attention.

They were moved up to beside the car which carried the bomb.

He says the only way he could describe the explosion was: "I felt like I was dead without knowing I was dead."

He adds he did not remember the sounds, but that it had "went from beautiful sunny day to the darkest day ever".

Mr McGrory says that they had been given money and that Shaun McLaughlin "wanted to go buy something for his mammy".

He said he bought some sweets and Oran bought a full cooked chicken to eat.

"He started eating it while we were standing in the street," Mr McGrory says, smiling as he recalls that image.

"It's the last thing he ate."

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After a short break, the inquiry is now hearing from Ronan McGrory.

Mr McGrory was friends with both Shaun McLaughlin and Oran Doherty. He was 14 at the time and had travelled on the Buncrana school trip.

They were with a group of Spanish students who had been attending a summer programme in the Donegal town.

He says he felt as though he had been "entrusted" with looking after the younger boys.

They were all excited, and the trip to the Ulster American Folk Park was good fun, he says.

"We'd rarely get away so the chance to get out of the town for the day was big," he adds.

He remembers that on the day of the bomb, it was a nice day and the sun was shining.

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Photographs of Oran were shown to the inquiry.

Lord Turnbull, who was clearly emotional himself, says that Oran's mother is right to ask the question that if the people responsible for the bombing could sleep in their beds at night.

"It's a question that many who have listened to the evidence to this inquiry in the last week will have asked themselves."

He hopes that those responsible will hear of "the accounts of misery and grief that they have imposed on so many".

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At the end of her statement, Ms Doherty says that the perpetrators will "never be forgiven for what they have done".

She also addressed her son, Oran.

"I look forward to the day when I will see you again, but for now mammy will continue to do her best to look after your brothers and sisters, and all your wee nieces and nephews who I know would love their uncle so much."

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Ms Doherty says the family has kept a jar of Oran's sweets from 1998, but that they had not received any other articles of clothing or his watch.

She says that the family will never forgive the bombers.

“I have listened to and read all the excuses about the fact they didn’t mean to get the bomb to go off at the time and in the place, and they didn’t expect anyone to be in the area at the time.

“I do not accept this and I never will.

“If you are prepared to transport a bomb of that magnitude into a crowded market town, then you know exactly what could happen.

“It was a despicable act inflicted upon people of all ages and from both sides of the political divide and all in the name of what?”

On Monday night, the families as well as "most of Buncrana" travelled to Omagh to take the bodies of Oran, Shaun McLaughlin and James Barker home, Ms Doherty says.

All three had been on a day trip with a group of Spanish students who had been attending a summer programme in the Donegal town.

"It was terrible, the sight of those three coffins side by side," said Oran's mum.

She adds that some of her daughters were "screaming and wailing".

People had lined the route back to Buncrana, standing on the streets with candles as the hearses drove past.

She says back home, the streets were thick with people paying their respects.

On Sunday night, alongside family members, Ms Doherty said she was brought to the makeshift morgue in Omagh.

"I remember going up to the morgue and it was just so cold in there," she says.

She adds that she was brought to see Oran's body: "It was just something I'll never forget."

She says he was badly marked with bruises and burns, and that his hair was wet.

"I don't know how I left him that night to come home," she says.

"It still haunts me that I didn't stay."

The next morning, Ms Doherty says she saw people in Shaun McLaughlin's home hugging.

"I said to my sister, you know there's something going on. They've got news of some sort."

Her sister then went to the house and came back to say Shaun was dead.

Shortly after, Ms Doherty's husband rang to ask if she had heard the news.

"I said that I heard about Shaun, and it was then that he told me Oran was dead too.

"I just threw the phone. It was your worst nightmare come true."

Ms Doherty says after the phone call, she couldn't imagine going back to her own house because she didn't think she could deal with Oran's things without him.

She says her husband came back at about 10am on Sunday morning and the rest of the day was "a haze".

A policewoman then rang Ms Doherty and asked to speak to her alone, for procedural reasons.

She remembers thinking that she was going to be told that Oran was dead, but instead was told that two small boys were missing and that he was one of them.

She was "hysterical" but contacted her husband who was at Omagh Leisure Centre.

"He was saying, 'Don't worry, I'll find our wee man. I'll bring him home'.

"But as the night went on there was still no word and were starting to fear the worst."