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Former Royal IRA leader Michael McKevitt died after a battle with cancer.
McKevitt, one of the four men responsible for the Omagh bomb, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer several years ago.
He was released in 2016 after serving a 20-year sentence for directing terrorism and belonging to an illegal organization.
The 71-year-old was married to Bernadette Sands McKevitt, sister of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.
From Co Louth, McKevitt has always denied involvement in the 1998 Omagh bombing, but in 2009 a judge ruled in a landmark civil trial that McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly were responsible for the bomb.
He ordered them to pay a total of £ 1.6 million in damages to 12 family members who took up the case.
A fifth man, Seamus McKenna, was acquitted of responsibility for the bombing.
No one has ever been convicted of the dissident Republican bombing in Omagh that killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
In 2019, McKevitt was declared bankrupt in Superior Court after failing to pay damages.
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