The Special Criminal Court has delayed until today its ruling on the admissibility of evidence in the case of Mr Colm Murphy, the only man charged in connection with the Omagh bomb.
The court was expected to give its decision yesterday on the admissibility issue, which concerns the issuing of a search warrant, the arrest, detention and interviewing of Mr Murphy by garda∅ in February 1999.
Mr Murphy (49) a father of four, has pleaded not guilty to conspiring in Dundalk with another person not before the court to cause an explosion in the State or elsewhere between August 13th and 16th, 1998. A native of Co Armagh, he has an address at Jordan's Corner, Ravensdale, Co Louth.
The prosecution is alleging that Mr Murphy lent aid to the people who planted the Omagh bomb.
On application by the defence, the court prohibited media reporting of the evidence in the "trial within a trial", which concluded on Wednesday after six days of legal argument.