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23 November 1971: a civilian from County Donegal (Bridget Carr, aged 24) died four days after being shot during a sniper attack on a nearby British Army patrol while walking along Lifford Road, Strabane, County Tyrone. [25]
The Eclipse cinema, now an Omniplex, opened in 2009. [29] The first cinema in Downpatrick was the Pavilion on St Patrick's Avenue in 1917, [29] followed by the Grand on Market St in 1935. [29] Lough Money is about three miles from the town. [30] A rainbow trout fishery is maintained there for anglers. [31]
Strabane Lifford Development Commission is a cross-border body in Ireland, to develop cultural and economic development ties between Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and Lifford in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, just across the border marked by the River Foyle.
28 October 1973 - Detective Constable John Doherty, a serving member of the RUC, was shot dead by the IRA at the entrance to his mother's house in Ardsool, a townland just outside Ballindrait, a village near Lifford in East Donegal. DC Doherty was aged 31, and was a detective based at Omagh RUC Barracks. He was from Ballindrait.
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New bridge over the River Foyle, linking Lifford and Strabane is built. Arts and literature. 17 April - The band Them, ...
The A38 links Strabane, County Tyrone and the A5 through the meadows of the river Foyle and over Lifford Bridge to Lifford, the County Town of County Donegal, [1] where it links into the N14 [1] and the N15. [2]
12 May: an ex-UDR soldier (Thomas Cunningham) was shot dead in Fountain Park, Strabane, County Tyrone; 11 June: an RUC officer (David Reeves) was killed by an IRA booby trap bomb while searching a garage, Carranbane Walk, Shantallow, County Londonderry. [33] 15 June: an off-duty UDR soldier was shot dead by the IRA in Strabane, County Tyrone. [33]