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Omagh (/ ˈ oʊ m ə, ˈ oʊ m ɑː /; [3] from Irish: An Ómaigh [ənˠ ˈoːmˠiː], meaning 'the virgin plain') [4] is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule .
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council replaced Fermanagh District Council and Omagh District Council.The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but in April 2008 Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011. [3]
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,162 townlands in County Tyrone, ... Omagh Golan Adams: 87: Omagh West: Ardstraw: Castlederg Golan ...
Tributes have been paid to two Spanish victims of the Omagh bombing during the first phase of a public inquiry into the 1998 atrocity. Fernando Blasco Baselga, 12, and Rocio Abad Ramos, 23, were ...
The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [6] It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year.
With a population of 188,383 as of the 2021 census, Tyrone is the 5th most populous county in both Northern Ireland and Ulster, and the 11th most populous county on the island of Ireland. The county derives its name and general geographic location from Tír Eoghain , a Gaelic kingdom under the O'Neill dynasty which existed until the 17th century.
A focus on victims at the public inquiry into the Omagh bombing will “bring humanity” to proceedings, the father of one of the victims has said. ... whose son Aiden was killed in the 1998 ...
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council (Irish: Comhairle Ceantair Fhear Manach agus na hÓmaí; Ulster-Scots: Districk Cooncil o Fermanagh an Omey [1]) is a local authority in Northern Ireland and was established on 1 April 2015.