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the real ira paramilitaries who planted that bomb, but it is about lessons being learned as opposed to apportioning blame. the inquiry is beginning over the next few weeks at a particularly poignant, personal and harrowing way because the focus will be very much on the victims, we will hear what are called pen portraits, essentially profiles read out in court of the people who were killed to put on record the sort of people they work and the sense of loss felt by their families, so it will set the tone for what comes after that, the examination, if you like, the examination, if you like, the questions of how intelligence was handled, how the police and other security forces went about investigating the 0magh bombing. that will come later in the year but for the first few weeks we will hear pen portraits, starting today with pen portraits of two spanish tourists killed in the

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