Families of the Omagh bomb victims today made a fresh demand for the British government to establish a cross-Border public inquiry into the atrocity which killed 29 people.
They made their demand during a marathon two-and-a-half hour meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Mr Paul Murphy - but came away empty handed.
Mr Michael Gallagher, whose son was among the 29 men, women and children slaughtered on August 15th, 1998 said such an inquiry was long overdue.
But Mr Murphy made no commitments. "The Secretary of State said that until the criminal investigation is completed that there could be no decision made on that," Mr Gallagher "We find that a bit difficult to swallow given that we have been waiting six-and-a-half years."
He said on the number of issues they raised, the Secretary of State ducked answers saying he couldn't comment because of the ongoing criminal investigation.
Questions about why it has taken more than six years for a Special Branch officer to be interviewed in a bid to trace the source of an anonymous phone call which warned of a planned attack met with a similar response from Mr Murphy.
It was revealed recently that the officer is to be interviewed about the call made on August 4th, 1998, 11 days before the bombing, but that information claiming police were going to be attacked was never passed on by Special Branch to uniformed officers on the ground.
Mr Gallagher said they wanted to know why it had taken so long to get round to interviewing the officer. "Surely it could have been done much, much earlier in the investigation."
He described the talks at Stormont Castle as "robust" but added: "I think we did most of the talking." He said Mr Murphy had given assurances that he would get back to them with answers to their concerns.
"We assured him that if he didn't we would keep coming back to him or his successor. "We are in the seventh year and not one person has been charged with murder at Omagh, north or south of the border. "The person who stole the bomb car that was used in Omagh and admitted this to Garda has not even been charged with car theft," said Mr Gallagher.