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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.
The A3 carries the course of the A26 through the villages of Moira and Magheralin, before the A26 branches off again upon entering Lurgan, heading towards Banbridge. The A3 continues through the town centre of Lurgan, and becomes dual carriageway from the outskirts of Lurgan through a series of roundabouts in what was planned as the new city of ...
[5] [6] They drove two 800-pound (360 kg) [7] car bombs several hundred yards into the Thiepval Barracks in Lisburn, which housed the British Army headquarters in Northern Ireland. [8] The first car bomb detonated near a travel arrangement centre, injuring many people.
Below Lisburn, the canal remained open for another four years, but was closed on 1 July 1958. [12] In 1965, some 7.7 miles (12.4 km) of the central section, between Moira and Sprucefield, were destroyed by the building of the M1 motorway along its route.
Moira station is the oldest building on the NI Railways network today having been opened on 18 November 1841. [4] The old, now redundant, signal box stands over the station on the Southbound side. Situated near the M1 motorway , the station is popular amongst commuters from the surrounding area, with over 330,000 passengers boarding or ...
Kelman Ltd. is a Northern Ireland-based company that produces advanced monitoring and diagnostics technologies for large electrical transformers. It is a fully owned subsidiary of General Electric (GE Energy).
Lisburn Road is a main arterial route linking Belfast and Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The Lisburn Road is now an extension of the " Golden Mile " with many shops, boutiques, wine bars, restaurants and coffee houses.
Running through Dunmurry and Ballyskeagh it arrives to the south of Lisburn. Traffic for Dublin leaves at junctions 7 and 8 as the motorway enters the countryside. Now heading west past Aghnatrisk it runs parallel to and then crosses the Belfast-Dublin Railway Line followed by the River Lagan before reaching Moira.