The families of the two Donegal boys killed in the Omagh explosion paid tribute to the RUC officers who attended the scene in the aftermath of the bomb attack.
Reading a statement from the families of Shaun McLaughlin (12) and Oran Doherty (8), Buncrana priest Father Shane Bradley said after the inquest rose that the families wanted to express "their deep-felt appreciation for all the police officers who acted so courageously" on August 15th, 1998.
"Our hearts are full of admiration and gratitude for the way they executed their difficult tasks with such care and generosity, with no thought for themselves.
"It is appreciated how traumatic the events of that day must have been for the individual officers and how harrowing it must still be to recall in such detail their actions on that day.
"These police officers, especially those who dealt with our young boys, will be forever held in high esteem for all they did on that fateful afternoon," he said.
Father Bradley said that the families' statement had been motivated in part by feelings of sympathy for officers as they were giving evidence.
Other relatives spoke after the sitting about the conflicting emotions they felt at the inquest. Mrs Caroline Martin, whose sister, Ms Esther Gibson (36), was killed in the blast, described the process as distressing, but hoped it would help if her family found out where, how and why Ms Gibson died.
Mr Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son Adrian was killed, also spoke of the strain of the hearings, saying he was glad that a witness dealing with his son's death would not be giving evidence.
Mrs Marion Radford, whose 16-year-old son Alan was killed, said: "It's unbelievable. You're sitting there imagining that that's a member of your family that that has happened to."
She spoke of how, through the inquest procedure, she and her daughter were having some of her son's effects returned to them. "It's the wee things like that that are important," she said.