He says that revisiting the events with counsellors over the years has made him stronger.

Of the inquiry, he says that it has been a long time coming, "perhaps too long".

"But maybe it's never too late."

He says he found it difficult listening to the statements being read today because of the number of people in the room.

He says he "took every word in" but it is "one of the hardest days of my life doing this".

"It's one of the hardest things I've ever done in life apart from coming through all that stuff we had to do."

Rodney says in the years after the bombing he found it "difficult to mix with people".

He adds that he couldn't sit in a restaurant unless it was a near a door or the corner.

He doesn't like to be in crowds of people.

He says he often leaves events early.

Rodney says his sleep has not improved to this day.

"Every night I go to bed at about 1am. Even in my working life it was the same, when I was doing 13 hour shifts, 12 hour shifts."

He says the years ahead were hard and he "never talked about" what happened.

Rodney says that he and his partner then went to his partner's family's house.

He says that he was in a "real bad state".

He says they then went back to their own flat.

He says that night he couldn't sleep and was crying all night.

He says he knew so many people who were killed.

Rodney was cleaned up and bandaged with dressings on his face.

His partner, Francie, came and picked him up from the hospital.

He says he "couldn't relate" to what Marion was saying.

"I was so mixed up and shook up."

People at the hospital who knew Rodney were asking him if he had seen their loved ones.

One of these people was Marian Radford, whose son Alan was killed in the bomb.

Rodney says at the hospital there "wasn't enough people to get round everybody".

He says he is not being critical of the medical staff.

Rodney says the hospital was "indescribable".

There were blood on the walls, people everywhere and it was "horrific".

"It was like something you couldn't even tell people about."

Rodney says he and Margaret came across a friend driving a white transit van.

He says the friend noticed that they were injured and told them to get in so he could take them to Tyrone County Hospital.

Rodney says at this point he was still unsure what had happened.

"You just couldn't believe what it felt like or how to explain to anybody what it was," he says.

"I just couldn't think until later on what it was."

He says he and Margaret tried to run up the street but says it was hard to do so because of the rubble and people in the street.

He says he could see people running ahead of him but that he was still dazed and so was moving more slowly.

Margaret was with Rodney at this point, in a "terrible state".

Her uniform was torn, as were Rodney's trousers.

"I was completely black."

Rodney remembers seeing a woman lying beside him and the colour of her light brown bag.

He says he doesn't know if she was living or dead but he thinks she was probably dead.

He says there was glass in his hands and forehead and blood on his clothes.

He pulled the glass out of his forehead.

"I was so shocked. I didn't know what it was or what was happening."

Rodney says his ears were buzzing and that the noise of sirens and people screaming sounded very far away.

He says he heard his friend shouting his name and she was coming towards him out of a newsagents.

He says his friend had been blown through the window.

He says he opened his eyes and "it was like a different world".

Everything was "jet black, like night time" and there was "debris everywhere"- glass, metal and people at different angles.

Rodney says that everything went black and he could feel himself being dragged away.

He says he didn't know what was happening.

Rodney says there was then a "merciful bang" and the air felt warm.

"I felt my eyes were swelling up, I felt my eyes were coming out," he says.

The pressure was awful, particularly in his eyes, and seemed to "suck all the oxygen out of [his] body".