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Thu 05 May 2007Man facing retrial over Omagh bomb 'lost livelihood'A Co Louth man who is seeking to stop his retrial on a conspiracy charge connected with the Real IRA bombing of Omagh has "suffered severely" since he was first arrested and charged more than eight years ago, the High Court was told yesterday.Colm Murphy said in an affidavit that he had been a "man of means" before his arrest but now his livelihood had been destroyed and his marriage had broken down.