The inquiry has this week moved into a new phase and is hearing from witnesses and people injured in the attack
On Thursday, the inquiry heard from David McSwiggan, Jim Sharkey, Suzanne Travis and Margaret Murphy, along with statements from Lisa McGonigle and Nichola Donnelly
The inquiry is examining whether the worst atrocity of the Troubles could have been prevented
Twenty-nine people, including a woman expecting twins, were murdered in the Real IRA attack on 15 August 1998
Relatives have had the opportunity to speak or provide statements in memory of those who died
Lord Turnbull says he is grateful to Ms Gault and Ms Taggart for their accounts of the "harrowing" events and for their strength.
He says their statements have added to the understanding of the inquiry.
Ms Gault says the noise from the explosion was “so loud”, adding she “remembers sticking her fingers in her ears".
“I was in a daze. I don’t know if I was knocked to the ground but I knew I had glass lodged all over my body.”
She says her next memory was that of a man coming out of his office.
Everyone had left the café "as it was empty", she says.
Ms Gault says she tried to gather herself and knew she had lots of injuries and was losing blood.
She does not know how long it was between the bomb exploding and when she made it out onto the street.
She recalls “water running down the road and it was stained with red blood".
A statement from another survivor, Katrine Gault, is now being read out.
Ms Gault says she sub-let a coffee shop on the corner of Market Street and Dublin Road at the time of the attack.
She says she saw people moving down the street and hear the "commotion" outside, when she heard of a bomb scare.
As she turned to walk back to the till "the bomb exploded".
Ms Taggart says that day has "destroyed" her life, as she suffers from complex PTSD.
She says she went to America to "try to live again", she trained to be an ambulance medic but it never helped in any way.
Ms Taggart says she has "visions" and "screams" of her neighbour.
She adds that she has serious questions that she would like to know the answers to.
Caroline Taggart says she remembers “the noise, the smoke, the screams, the glass, the flames” and thinking that “another bomb was going to go off".
She recalls getting up with “her clothes in ribbons, no shoes", and seeing many of her “work friends in the street, squealing and covered in blood".
Ms Taggart was taken to hospital where glass was removed from her foot.
The hospital, Ms Taggart describes, was “absolute carnage”.
She describes seeing bodies and people laying on the floor, corridors and beds.
Ms Taggart recalls meeting a woman who later died, along with her unborn twins, her mother and her daughter, adding: “I will never get these images out of my head. It’s destroyed my life."
In a statement read out to the inquiry, Caroline Taggart says she was working at the bakery in Omagh at the time of the bombing.
A police officer entered the bakery and directed staff towards Market Street because of the bomb scare.
She says her and her friends were not worried, as it was just a bomb scare, as they lent against the car.
Her friend said she needed nail polish so they headed to the shop to buy it, when they were about 10 metres away from the car they spoke to her neighbour Avril Monaghan and her daughter.
Ms Taggart says she spoke to her and five seconds later, as soon as she had her foot at the door's entrance, the "bomb went off".
Lord Turnbull thanks Caroline McKinney for her “further account of the terrible scenes that unfolded” on the day of the bombing.
He describes the knowledge that her then 13-month old daughter was at the scene would have been “harrowing” and "deeply upsetting".
He adds that he’s “delighted” to see Niamh today and that “she has been able to live a full life and see the world".
“As you so rightly, and compassionately acknowledged, the bombing denied so many other those same opportunities."
After the bombing the pram was returned and although it was badly damaged, Ms McKinney says it saved her life.
Ms McKinney says since the attack Niamh has been living her life, travelling with friends.
To this day, Ms McKinney says she has had physiological and physical impact, which she continues to feel to this day.
She says she is conscious of "those who are not so lucky", and she has kept in contact with a lot of Debra-Anne's friends, who she thinks of often.
Ms McKinney explains Niamh was found in hospital due to her "little gold studs" in her ears, which indicated she was Caroline's daughter.
When she was discharged, Niamh started vomiting a black substance and was unsteady on her feet, and then an x-ray showed she had a shrapnel in her head.
Niamh's father was told to get Niamh to hospital as soon as possible, and it could have went "either way".
"It would have been complicated had it been in another part of her brain," Ms McKinney says.
She says medical professionals told her it was safer to leave the shrapnel in Niamh's head, but then epilepsy developed a few years later.
After surgery Niamh stayed in the RVH for a week and it was there she was reunited with her mother, Ms McKinney.
Pointing to her shoulder, Ms McKinney explains that a bone had “snapped" and "it was out”.
She she describes being “delirious".
“I don’t have memories of seeing very much," Ms Kinney explains.
Ms McKinney recalls being taken to hospital in a police car where doctors were assessing patients.
“He just looked at my arm and said: Altnagelvin.”
After that it was a “blur”, Ms McKinney explains.
She says her family did manage to find her in Omagh while also searching Caroline’s daughter, Niamh.
Image source, Omagh Bombing InquiryCaroline McKinney and her daughter
Ms McKinney says there was a "flash, there was a bang", and she was aware the bomb had exploded in front of them.
She says the bomb threw her to the ground, and when she looked at the shop the shutter had came off and had pinned her to the ground.
Ms McKinney adds that the bomb had blown her daughter Niamh from her pram out into the street, and there was blood pouring down her face.
She says she knew her daughter was alive because she heard her crying, a lady from the bakery then took her away.
Ms McKinney says she didn't know where her daughter had went for a week.
Making her way down the street, Ms McKinney recalls “so many people, so many familiar faces” with everyone “chatting and in good form".
The street emptied “quite fast," she says.
“People were all over the street, right down to the barriers.”
There was “no sense of panic, absolutely not", she says.
Ms McKinney says there was no one at the top of the street. She remembers a police officer in a short sleeve green shirt shouting “everyone get down to Campsie, everyone get down to Campsie and that’s when the bomb exploded”.
The inquiry is now hearing from Caroline McKinney who owned a beauty salon in Omagh at the time of the bombing.
Ms McKinney says her colleague, Debra-Anne, had taken Niamh out in a pram.
Someone had came up and told the salon there was a bomb scare at the courthouse.
Ms McKinney says she left the salon and went into the Royal Arms to meet Debra-Anne and Niamh, before making their way down the street.
Speaking about Jaime McGlinn, Lord Turnbull thanked him for his “strength and generosity” in providing a statement to the inquiry.
He adds that what Mr McGlinn experience as a “young, 19-year-old teenager was quite simply horrific.”
“His vivid account gave a powerful insight into the reality of the event.”
He also notes that the testimony gives “some sense” to what the medical staff on the day were “trying to cope with” adding that McGlinn had to wait several days to receive treatment on “serious wounds".
Mr McGlinn says it was an event which had a "massive impact" on their lives.
He says he gets frustrated with new information coming out, because with every event brings more conversation and they have to live the memory over and over.
Mr McGlinn adds that it brings on a lot of questions of why "somebody wasn't held accountable".
He says he stopped looking for the end result as it brings frsutration.
However he says he still sees Omagh in a positive way as they are the "lucky ones".
After a few days, Mr McGlinn remembers being discharged, he says he was aware it would be an uphill struggle.
He says he "didn't let it dictate our lives", he adds that he learned to deal with it.
As he started a university course, due to his injuries he had to take a year out.
After the bomb he says him and his girlfriend made a decision to not let it affect their lives in a "negative way".
After some time, a doctor came along and told him he had glass in his forehead, which was removed there and then.
He says he felt nothing despite having no anaesthetic.
His parents arrived and a doctor told him they had to make their way to Dungannon.
He recalls his girlfriend being airlifted to Altnagelvin Hospital and feeling “guilty” that if he hadn’t went outside he would have been with her.
Upon arriving at the hospital, he remembers a nurse coming along to remove his trousers with “ a sharp pair of scissors”.
He remembers waking up and someone saying “you were part of the bomb that went off in Omagh.”
“I remember thinking I was lucky” – reflecting on hearing the news that others had perished in the bombing.
Mr McGlinn says he remembers a child crying, in a high-pitched tone.
He realised he knew the child's mother, after a couple of minutes he says a man seemed to appear with no injuries, next to the child to tell them that their mother would be ok.
As he turned to his girlfriend to confirm the man was there, when they both looked back there was no man.
He says it must have been an angel that was there for the kids in that moment.
He recalls a “makeshift ambulance” arriving in the form of a bus. He got on the bus.
Mr McGlinn says he felt “guilty” being on the bus as their were people with “more severe injuries” waiting to be attended too.