During his evidence, he said that the RUC and An Garda Síochána did not routinely share information relating to the attack.
“It seemed to be much more an inquiry that was operating in parallel rather than in collaboration.”
He also recounted a disagreement between the forces over the sharing of pictures of 60 suspects which the gardaí (Irish police) had gathered.
“The guards had penetrated the dissidents quite well and they didn’t want to compromise that in anyway, shape or form and therefore, they weren’t going to hand over pen portraits,” he told the inquiry.
“And there was a bit of a row about that.”
Ware said the gardaí was “very strict” about intelligence sharing and there was “a culture of control permeating” the force.
In a quote from his notes, he outlined how a senior figure in the RUC told him they had extra resources on standby in case of a bombing.
“After Banbridge they feared that the worst would happen, in other words that there would be a mass casualty bombing,” he said.
“The assessment was that it would target the same Newry corridor as previous attacks, Lisburn, Newry and Banbridge.
“They thought as a result there was heightened security along the border the following day in the south Armagh, north Louth area but not as far west as Aughnacloy where the Omagh bomb convey made the crossing into Northern Ireland.”