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The name Omagh is an anglicisation of the Irish name an Óghmaigh (modern Irish an Ómaigh), meaning "the virgin plain". A monastery was apparently established on the site of the town about 792, and a Franciscan friary was founded in 1464. [7] Omagh was founded as a town in 1610.
On that day they visited the Ulster-American Folk Park on the outskirts of Omagh before going into the town itself in the afternoon to shop when the bomb exploded at 3.04pm.
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.
Debra-Anne Cartwright, 20, was working in a beauty salon in Omagh on the day of the attack in 1998. ... Ms Cartwright, from Birchwood in Omagh, was working in a beauty salon in the town centre.
The Omagh bomb exploded in the town centre on a busy Saturday afternoon on 15 August 1998. The streets were packed with shoppers, including families who were buying uniforms and other supplies as ...
Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh , the county covers an area of 1,261 square miles (3,266 km 2 ), [ 1 ] making it the largest of Northern Ireland's six counties by size, and the second largest county in Ulster after Donegal .
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. Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden was killed ...
Omagh District Council was a local council in Northern Ireland. It merged with Fermanagh District Council in April 2015 under local government reorganisation to become Fermanagh and Omagh District Council. Its headquarters was in the town of Omagh, which is the traditional county town of Tyrone.