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On September 15, 2023, it was announced that a consortium which includes Ian McMahon along with Patrick and Edmund Simpson, were understood to have agreed terms to buy Foyleside Acquisitions Limited, the holding company for the Derry shopping complex, the same consortium also owns Rushmere Shopping Centre under holding company Killahoey Limited ...
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The Derry/Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and Several other independent businesses also reside within the building. However concerns have been raised about the long term viability of the complex as when staff moved out of the building in October 1993 and June 1994, over 10,000 sq. ft (24 per cent) of space remained vacant for over four years.
Gaelic games are the most popular sports in the area, with Ballinderry Shamrocks GAC being the local club. Páirc na Seamróg is the team's grounds. Páirc na Seamróg is the team's grounds. Ballinderry GAC is best known for winning the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship in 2002.
St Canice's Dungiven is the local Gaelic football club; [13] the team plays at O'Cahan Park and have won the Derry Senior Football Championship 7 times, and won the Ulster Senior Football Championship once, in 1997. Kevin Lynch's is the local hurling club; they have won the Derry Senior Hurling Championship a record 22 times. The team plays at ...
It lies 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east-north-east of Derry, to which it serves as a sleeper village, and 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west-south-west of Limavady. It resides within Derry and Strabane district. The City of Derry Airport, also known as Eglinton Aerodrome and formerly as Londonderry Eglinton Airport, [4] [5] lies a short distance from the village.
Draperstown (/ ˌ d r ɛ p ər z ˈ t aʊ n, ˌ d r iː p ər z-/) [3] is a village in the Sperrin Mountains in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.It is situated in the civil parish of Ballinascreen and is part of Mid-Ulster district.
The area was first settled by Scots-Irish families in 1719 as part of the town of Londonderry, as were present-day Windham and portions of Manchester, Salem and Hudson.The town of Derry was formed in 1827 from the eastern portion of Londonderry and was named, like Londonderry, after the city of Derry in Ireland, [4] the Irish word Doire meaning "oak grove".