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The traditional newspaper for Omagh and district since 1844
Wed, January 07, 2009
Thursday, 1 January 2009
by Stephen McKiernan. BATTLING toddler, Katie Maguire, who visited her relatives in Omagh for Christmas, has been given...
Thursday, 1 January 2009
It was a quiet Christmas for Tyrone mums-to-be as just one baby from the county was born on Christmas Day and Boxing Day...
Thursday, 1 January 2009
by Emma Stewart. With the number of people consulting their GP for 'flu and 'flu-like illness escalating to the highest...
Thursday, 1 January 2009
by Emma Stewart.A Christmas Day assault on a man at his Carrickmore home has been described as 'diabolical' by the chair...
Thursday, 25 December 2008
by Julie Moore. Little Billy Caldwell will be spending Christmas at home in Omagh, surrounded by friends and family, th...
Thursday, 25 December 2008
by Emma Stewart. 'Tis the season to be merry', but when the line between merry and misery is so fine, it seems wise not...
Thursday, 25 December 2008
by Emma Stewart. Bringing Omagh's Lammy tragedy nearer to its final conclusion, police last week announced that they ha...
Thursday, 25 December 2008
by Karen McPhilemy. A MAJOR international company has brought a little pre-Christmas cheer to the people of Omagh, afte...
Thursday, 18 December 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. A FAMILY of five has been left homeless for Christmas, after a fire, believed to have started acc...
Thursday, 18 December 2008
With the Christmas week almost upon us, it is the last chance for everyone to hot-foot it down to Woodview Landscapes, l...
Thursday, 18 December 2008
Traders in Dromore are up in arms this week after traffic wardens issued a number of parking tickets to customers outsid...
Thursday, 18 December 2008
by Stephen McKiernan.A MAN and woman remained in custody yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) after police in Omagh launched ...
Thursday, 11 December 2008
by Emma Stewart. "Still buzzing" after her wedding on Saturday, Irvinestown's favourite daughter, Sinead Quinn, is look...
Thursday, 11 December 2008
by Stephen McKiernan.FUNDRAISERS working tirelessly on behalf of the Baby Katie Maguire Fund will be able to see for the...
Thursday, 11 December 2008
by Anna Maguire.A Strabane district councillor this week called for security to be installed around Castlederg's Christm...
Thursday, 11 December 2008
by Emma Stewart.The prospect of good news for health was left under the west's Christmas tree in recent days, as a priva...
Thursday, 4 December 2008
by Emma Stewart. An attack on Castlederg's Christmas tree within days of the official 'switch-on' has been roundly cond...
Thursday, 4 December 2008
by Emma Stewart. A third of Omagh district families were in fuel poverty in 2006 - a statistic which looks likely to ha...
Thursday, 4 December 2008
by Julie Moore.Staff at Omagh Independent Advice Service (OIAS) and St Vincent de Paul (SVP) are encouraging the people ...
Thursday, 4 December 2008
by Julie Moore.Redundancy figures in the Omagh area have doubled in the last year, deputy manager of Omagh Independent A...
Thursday, 27 November 2008
Ann Quinn and Dr Mary Magee, of AM Communications, Omagh, who manage the Regional Assessment Centre for Justice Sector A...
Thursday, 27 November 2008
OMAGH-born teacher and proprietor of Learning SPACE, the Belfast and online based educational store, Lorraine McAleer, s...
Thursday, 27 November 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. OMAGH ratepayers could come out on top in a council amalgamation with Fermanagh, after figures re...
Thursday, 27 November 2008
by Karen McPhilemy. IN TWO separate drug raids in the Omagh district at the weekend, over £10,000 worth of illegal subs...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
by Emma Stewart. This week, as the NI Assembly agreed the process by which devolution of policing and justice powers wi...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Four families from Northern Ireland, currently exiled in Chicago with their sick children, hope to meet US president ele...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. A 16-year-old boy appeared at a youth court in Omagh yesterday morning (Wednesday), following a w...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
A 56-year-old Castlederg woman has been charged with attempting to cheat businesses in Tyrone and Antrim out of more tha...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
by Anna Maguire. AN emergency caesarean section being carried out in a bid to save the life of Newtownstewart baby Rona...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Emma Stewart. One year, to the day, after a horrifying early morning blaze claimed the lives of Arthur McElhill, Lor...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Karen McPhilemy.'WE will fight this appalling travesty on our community tooth and nail', a relative of a Gortmore Hou...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
ST. Joseph's Guides have announced that they are to set up a unit in Omagh and will be celebrating this launch with a sp...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Emma Stewart. The Western Health and Social Care Trust has revealed that its 'strategic response' to efficiency targ...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Where in Omagh would you have found the Rat's Pad, Park Avenue and Tintown, not to mention the Shambles? These addresse...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. HALLOWEEN disturbances in Trillick over the weekend could have caused serious injury, according t...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
A FINTONA man, who assaulted a member of an ambulance crew and a police officer, was sentenced at Omagh Magistrates Cour...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
by Julie Moore. Omagh District Council's November meeting, held on Tuesday night, took an unexpected turn when a propos...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
PEOPLE coming from pubs and nightclubs in Omagh are being urged to avoid blocking traffic on the streets. The sheer vol...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Members of the Northern Ireland Select Affairs Committee, which visited Lisanelly and St Lucia army barracks, Omagh, and...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
by Emma Stewart. The Minister of Health's 'carrot and stick' approach to the local hospital debate turned a corner last...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
by Julie Moore.The Carrickmore family of hit-and-run victim, Johnathan Heagney, are said to be 'struggling' to come to t...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
As shock Department of Health statistics this week revealed that nine per cent of 15 to 34-year-olds in Northern Ireland...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. THE Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) has refuted allegations that an elderly man waited ...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
by Emma Stewart. Department of Health figures, prompted by a question posed by West Tyrone MLA., Tom Buchanan, have rev...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
by Emma Stewart. Omagh district councillor and member of the Western Education and Library Board, Pat McDonnell, has ex...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
An Omagh woman is one of 23 'very special young people' from all over Northern Ireland who successfully completed traini...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Julie MooreThe hard work and determination of the mother of ill Omagh toddler, Billy Caldwell, was recognised during ...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Karen McPhilemyOUT of six ambulances stationed at Omagh, two are currently broken down and one has been redeployed fo...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Emma StewartThe NI Assembly this week stood behind an amended motion calling for an 'open' and 'transparent' investig...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
by Julie MooreOmagh dairy company, Strathroy Dairy Ltd, has been selected by Rail Gourmet to supply its products for cat...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
by Emma StewartAlmost a year on from the November 13 fire tragedy in which a family of seven perished, Lammy residents s...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
by Karen McPhilemyTHE principal of Killen Primary School is in a 'critical' condition in hospital this week, after he wa...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Omagh must welcome plans 'enthusiastically' or risk investment being withdrawn - Warningby Emma StewartOmagh mus...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Julie Moore. The mother of ill Omagh toddler, Billy Caldwell, will be heading up a new foundation, set to be launche...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Emma Stewart. Omagh has been selected as a 'primary site' to which public sector jobs should be moved as part of a p...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. A HUNGARIAN father, who emigrated to Omagh to earn money to pay for his sons' education, has been...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Julie Moore. A former Castlederg woman, now living in Dublin, will be hosting a charity fundraiser in aid of the Nia...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
by Julie Moore. Reaching the ripe old age of 100 is something not too many achieve!Helen Henderson, from Newtownstewart...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
A second ATM ram raid - this time in Garvaghey, on the A5 Ballygawley Road - has been described as a 'comedy of errors',...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Police are appealing for information following a report of 11 missing Hampshire Down lambs from a property on the Straba...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
by Julie Moore.TEMPERS reached boiling point on Tuesday night during a meeting of residents from the vicinity of the Cav...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
A phone number used by dissidents operating mainly in the Irish Republic was passed to Government Communications Headqua...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
by Emma Stewart. Four men commandeered a quarry digger to steal an ATM machine from a business in Carrickmore in the ea...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
IRISH president, Mary McAleese, was due to arrive in Castlederg yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) to officially open Churc...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
by Emma Stewart. Omagh families are demanding the handover of intelligence tapes, which are reported to contain covertl...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
by Karen McPhilemy. AS proposals for a massive £300 million development for Omagh town were unveiled this week, the chi...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
by Julie Moore. Angry residents from the Cavanacaw area, outside Omagh, turned out in force on Friday to attend a heate...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
by Karen McPhilemy. NORTHERN Ireland Water has confirmed that there are to be a number of administrative job losses at ...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. The much-disputed development planned for the former Desmonds factory site on Omagh's Kevlin Road...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
by Julie Moore. Weekend vandalism to a number of tower flower displays in Fintona's Main Street, which caused traffic o...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
by Karen McPhilemy. AMBITIOUS plans for a £300 million investment for Omagh town which is expected to see the creation ...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
LOCAL photographer, Robert O'Brien, has been awarded the Associateship of The Royal Photographic Society. mr O'Brien, f...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. "SHAME on you, Omagh District Council. All of you, hang your heads in shame!" Angry words, spoken...
