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Colm Murphy, who is awaiting a retrial for offences connected with the Omagh bombing in 1998, had the terms of his bail varied by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.
Murphy was freed on bail last January after the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed his conviction for conspiracy offences connected with the Real IRA bombing which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, and injured more than 300 people.
Murphy was freed after he signed a bail bond, lodged �50,000 in cash with the court, agreed to sign on daily at Dundalk garda station, to reside at Plaster, Mountpleasant , Dundalk and not to apply for a passport.
Today, his solicitor Mr Michael Farrell applied to have the daily signing on condition varied to signing on three times a week. Mr Farrell said that his client has observed the terms of his bail.
He said his case was listed for next October but there is another trial which has a bearing on the case which is scheduled for December and Murphy is unlikely to get a new trial before January next year.
Mr Justice Richard Johnson, presiding, said that with the consent of the State the court would vary the bail conditions.
Murphy was jailed for 14 years by the Special Criminal Court in January 2002 for his  alleged role in the Omagh bomb . He was the first person to be convicted in either the Republic or Northern Ireland in connection with the Real IRA bombing, the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of the 30 years of the troubles.
But in January the Court of Criminal Appeal overturned the conviction and ordered a retrial after finding that the court of trial had failed to give proper regard to altered garda interview notes and that there had been "an invasion of the presumption of innocence'' in the judgement on Murphy.
During a 25-day trial in 2001 and 2002, Murphy, (aged 52),You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, a father of four,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, building contractor and publican who is a native of Co Armagh with an address at Jordan's Corner, Ravensdale, Co Louth had 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 13 and 16,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, 1998.
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