The Omagh Bombing Inquiry is examining whether the single 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
This is the fourth week of hearings
Mr Barker explains how James’ maternal grandparents moving back to Buncrana made his wife want to move back to Ireland.
He says it was a great time for James who “loved” being there despite missing his father.
Mr Barker says James was a “kind and caring boy”.
He recalls how James told him on a fishing trip how much he loved living in Ireland and that the only thing he missed was “not having me there”.
Victor Barker says he has "many happy memories" of James' early years growing up in their home in Windsor, England.
They had a "good family network", with support from James' grandparents on both sides of the family, he says.
Mr Barker says they moved to Surrey and James had taken an interest in playing golf, his passion.
James' mother purchased a holiday home in Buncrana, which Mr Barker says turned into a "more permanent residence in pursuit of a more idyllic life for her and her children".
James always said how much he enjoyed it there, but always missed his father who had to stay in England for work.
Mr Barker would visit every three weeks, and says he "treasures those moments' with James.
The inquiry will hear a commemoration of James Barker by his father Victor Barker.
Image source, Family handoutJames Barker was 12 years old when he died in the Omagh bombing
On the opening day of the inquiry counsel told the inquiry James Barker grew up in Surrey, and that his grandparents' retirement and move back to Ireland prompted his family to also move.
In August 1998, one of the Spanish exchange students was staying with James' family in Buncrana, County Donegal.
On 15 August, James' sister had been due to travel on the trip to Omagh, but she was unwell so James took her place.
James father said, the Good Friday Agreement appeared to signal the end of the Troubles and that there was a feeling of "peace at last".
He added, the fulfilment of his wife's desire to return to her native home and to give their children a "better life" seemed to be closer to realisation - particularly as James was due to start his education at Campbell College Belfast the following September.
However, counsel commented that this sense of hope was destroyed by the events at Omagh.
The inquiry has taken a break for lunch and will return for the commemoration of James Barker by Victor Barker.
It is due to resume at 15:00 GMT.
He recalls a relative wanting to see him, and show him footage of the day of the bomb.
"I told him, I didn't want to see this."
Mr Murphy says he was identified in the footage and told his relative to "turn it off".
However, he later heard that this footage proved useful to the inquiry.
He describes walking away from the scene and going into a local pub, “I had a pint in a daze”, he says and walked home but “that took a while”.
Mr Murphy says the phones where down and that his name was added to a list in Omagh Leisure Centre but thankfully he was okay.
He adds that he can't remember what happened after that.
The witness statement of Damien Murphy is next to be read.
He was preparing for a career in teaching and due to start at a school in Uzbekistan at the time of the bombing.
He says on the day of the bombing he had gone into town to send emails at the library.
After running into some friends, he recalls police cars flooding into the town.
It was as he entered the library the bomb went off.
He describes the screams and smells as "overwhelming".
"I first saw people come past me with lots of bleeding, I retrieved some paper towels, telling people to put pressure on the wound," he says.
He says he doubled back to the petrol station and came back with “blue paper towels”.
He adds that he met three young Spanish girls who “were bleeding all over”.
“My immediate thought was to get people out of here,” he says.
Ms O'Brien says the incident has caused extreme family issues between herself, her sister and her parents.
She adds that her education, personal life and her ability to live her life have all been uprooted by the events of that day.
"In my 20s I suffered panic attacks," says Ms O'Brien.
"I took myself to Omagh minor injuries unit, as I thought I was having a heart attack.
"I understand that my experience of the Omagh bomb in the formative years of my life, coupled with the lack of support thereafter, have altered my nervous system irreversibly."
She adds: "I feel my experience will have a life long negative impact on the quality of my life."
Ms O’Brien describes the period after the bomb. She says that she never received access to any medical support and goes on to describe how her parents preferred not to mention what had occurred.
“I believe my experience as an eight-year-old robbed me of the same opportunities as my peers.”
She adds that in school she had a constant underlying worry that she would once again be placed in a terrorist attack.
She says that she never received pastoral support at school with her parents not telling the school about her Omagh bomb experience.
Dervlagh O’Brien is the younger sister of Maeve. The inquiry is now reading her statement.
She says that she was eight years old and the youngest in their group.
Ms O’Brien says the ground “jarred and moved under my feet” as she describes the moment the bomb detonated.
She says she recalls no human noise or screaming just a sense of utter shock and disbelief.
In her closing lines from her statement, Ms Maeve O'Brien said: "I don't think it is a generalisation to say that Omagh has been forgotten about, and the community has been left to piece itself back together, alone."
"Often I would wonder why I survived and so many others died."
"Sometimes I wish I had been killed and others could have survived in my place
"These thoughts and worries plagued my inner psyche.
"The guilt I felt after surviving the Omagh bomb has imprinted who I am at core.
"I carry with me the heaviness."
She says that she remembers going to leave flowers at the decimated Market Street in the days after.
Ms O'Brien describes a “whirlpool of emotions” that she believes a 13-year-old should not have experienced.
“Missing the comforting and lovely coffee shop upstairs at Nicholl & Shiels," she says.
“Missing the shoe shop where I got my Clarks fairy princess shoes as a child."
“I was very lucky not to see any of the immediate disaster,” she says.
She describes trying to call her parents with a stranger's phone as all the phone lines were down.
She adds that telling her parents was “a hugely traumatic experience”.
She continues that she believes therapeutic resources and support have not been sufficient in supporting troubles victims.
"No one knew how to cope with the death and destruction that was created by the Omagh Bombing," she says.
"My sister lives with extreme anxiety and jumps at the sounds of loud noises.
"Many of us try to bottle up and try to forget that horrific day."
She describes what she experienced as "a hierarchy of grief", whereby she felt she couldn't bring up her experience because she did not have a physical injury.
Living through such an experience "embeds itself into your DNA", says Ms O'Brien.
She described how trauma has imprinted on her capacity to think
She continues by saying "when traumatic events occur, like 911 or events in Gaza", that she is retraumatised, and that her "blood again runs cold".
Maeve O'Brien experienced the bomb as a thirteen-year-old shopping in Omagh town with her sister, aunt, cousin and grandmother.
Her parents were away in Galway at the time.
She described it as "a Saturday like any other".
"Bomb scares were not out of the ordinary," she says.
"When we were told to move towards Market Street, no one was panicked or scared".
Ms O'Brien says her life is "divided into periods before and after the Omagh bomb".
"It was the end of childhood and the final loss of innocence," she says.
"Even now I can viscerally remember the sound of the bomb - the strange electrical smell and the haze coming from Market Street," she says.
"I remember the panic and fear in everyone's movements. I have a true understanding of the saying your blood running cold."
The inquiry says they are “very grateful” for the detail of Mr Quigley’s statement.
They add that the challenges faced where unique and that the memories still remain vivid for Mr Quigley and his colleagues after all these years.
Again they conclude by thanking him very much for his assistance.
"On a personal note", he says, "I have yet to walk around Market Street or to the Peace Garden."
"I can still remember the smell of the beer on the street corner."
He asked himself: "Will I ever walk through Galloway, where the bodies had laid end to end?"
He answers "probably never".
He asks: "Should I?"
"Maybe I would get closure."