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Omagh (/ ˈ oʊ m ə, ˈ oʊ m ɑː /; [3] from Irish: An Ómaigh [ənˠ ˈoːmˠiː], meaning 'the virgin plain') [4] is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule .
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.
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council replaced Fermanagh District Council and Omagh District Council.The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but in April 2008 Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011. [3]
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Murphy was arrested by the Gardaí on 21 February 1999 for questioning under anti-terrorist legislation. On 24 February, Murphy became the first person charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, when he appeared before Dublin's Special Criminal Court and was charged with conspiring to cause an explosion under the terms of Ireland's Offences Against the State Act, between 13 and 16 August 1998.
Campsie (from Irish Camsan [1]) is a small town in County Tyrone of Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom. It is located in the historic barony of Omagh East and the civil parish of Cappagh, with a population of 1,923 in 2024. [2]
Below is a list of places situated within Fermanagh and Omagh district, Northern Ireland: Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Its lyrics were inspired by the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on 15 August 1998. The song lists the names of people killed in the bombing. Similarly, inspiration for the lyric, "She never got to say goodbye / To see the colour in his eyes / Now he's in the dirt" comes from the funeral of James Barker, another victim of the bombing.