Omagh

Start of building work at Strule shared education campus a ‘touchstone moment’

On Saturday 21st September, Newtownstewart Young Farmers' Club will hold their first ever speed shear at Beatties Pedigree Centre, 109 Glenpark Road, Omagh

Newtownstewart YFC to hold club's first speed shear

The Homebase store at Crescent Link Retail Park, Londonderry to close. Photo: Google Earth.

Sainsbury’s to open two new stores in Northern Ireland after Homebase deal

An Omagh firm which provides electrical engineering, contracting and consultancy services has said it expects to grow its workforce by 70%. Pictured is Jeremy Fitch, executive director of Business Growth Group, Invest NI, Stephen Lagan, director, Lagan Energy, Economy Minister Conor Murphy and Emmet Lagan, director, Lagan Energy (Image credit: Department for the Economy)

NI firm to grow its workforce by 70% as it expands in the renewables sector

Presentation to me by Paul Wade(right), Head of IT Services, South West College

Computer technician reflects on a long career in same college

Cahir O'Hagan who sadly passed away from Cystic Fibrosis in October 2023

Terex Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser in memory of 'one in a million' Tyrone man

With over 20,000 babies are born in Northern Ireland in a year, 10 M&S cafes across Northern Ireland are launching weekly parent and baby meet ups from September as part of the launch of the retailer’s very first baby club – the parent hood

M&S cafes across Northern Ireland launch weekly parent and baby meet ups

Pictured Ian Lowry, Woodvale-Lowry JV Limited, Ivor Sampson, Woodvale-Lowry JV Limited and Mark Browne, Department of Education Permanent Secretary signing the contract for the Strule Shared Education Campus

NI firm signs contract for £375m education campus on army barracks site

Many former RUC officers are still suffering from the effects of the Troubles but there is help available, writes Aileen Quinton

Letter: Encouraging traumatised RUC officers to seek help

Chief executive Edmond Scanlon

Parent firm of Coleraine cheese reveals revenue down 5.9% in first half of year

Morning View

Editorial: Dublin is suing UK on past yet now offers help over Omagh bomb

Claire Bowes of Omagh Music Academy, a talented blind pianist, set up the business in 2013. Omagh Music Academy already caters for more than 180 students but has plans to grow that number yet further

NI music teacher, blinded in the Omagh bomb, is composing plans for expansion

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and Taoiseach Simon Harris drink a pint of Guinness during his visit to Chequers earlier this month. The much-touted reset in relations cannot be a reason not to challenge Ireland. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

Doug Beattie: Ireland ignores its role in Troubles despite suing UK on legacy

Northern Ireland Executive has given the green light to move forward with the Strule Shared Education Campus (image credit: Pixabay)

Major education campus in Northern Ireland moves forward

Over 100 jobs are at risk at the Co Trone operations of manufacturing firm Terex

Over 100 jobs to be cut at NI manufacturing giant due to industry slowdown

A man has died following a collision in the Clanabogan Road area of Omagh

PSNI confirm a man has died in a collision in Omagh

The PSNI have confirmed that a man has died following a crash between a vehicle and a pedestrian in Omagh.

Johnny McNabb

A dissident republican bomb exploded in Omagh on August 15 1998, killing 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins. Hundreds more were injured

Irish Government formally approves co-operation with Omagh inquiry

Sinn Fein's new MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Pat Cullen (left) and Diana Armstrong, UUP who was the agreed unionist candidate.

Pat Cullen urged 'to recognise pain of terror victims'

Twelve people, including three nurses, lost their lives in the IRA Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen on November 8, 1987. Sinn Fein Westminster election candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Pat Cullen has declined to offer her condemnation of IRA murders of civilians

Ruth Dudley Edwards: I won’t shut up – evil must be called out

Pictured above from left to right back row, Melissa Tubman, Jo-Anne McCay, Kathryn Mitchell, Helena Clements. Front row Grace Irwin, Alex Young and Jill Waugh

Derg Valley YFC has had a successful and busy few months

Omagh Town's Mark Donnelly playing against Liverpool at St Julian's Road in October 1999. PIC: Pacemaker

The Premiership star that is reforming a famous Irish League club 19 years on

One of Northern Ireland's last surviving veterans of the Second World War, George Horner, 97, from Carrickfergus, has recalled his experience landing with the Royal Ulster Rifles at Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day ahead of the 80th anniversary.

Northern Ireland veteran recalls the 'slaughter house' of D-Day landings

Ben Wishart has autism and visual impairment. His cousin Julie is fundraising to support his needs and sight loss support charity RNIB.

Julie's mountain effort for cousin Ben

Bank of Ireland is warning Northern Ireland consumers about a new wave of purchase scams which is luring consumers to make payments for good and services through an advertisement online, which then transpires to be fake. Pictured is Allison Ewing, UK fraud customer experience manager, Bank of Ireland

Warning: Rise in new wave of purchase scams is luring Northern Ireland consumers

A new development on the Sligo Road in Enniskillen which will bring 40 new homes to the area is progressing the first phase of 20 units, with an estimated handover for the full project aimed to be early 2026. Pictured are Michael McDonnell, Choice Group chief executive, Jayne McFaul, Choice development officer and Simon Johnston, project manager Newpark Homes

Phase one to develop 40 new homes in Enniskillen gets underway

Officers affected by the Omagh bomb will have to relive their trauma during the forthcoming public inquiry. MAPS (Military and Police Support in West Tyrone) is helping former officers who were at the scene of the Omagh bomb to deal with mental health issues. They can be contacted by at 53 Market Street, Omagh or by emailing omaghpsg@gmail.com

Jon Burrows: Huge mental toll suffered by officers who policed Troubles

The coffin of 17-year-old Kamile Vaicikonyte being carried outside St Mary’s Church in Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone ahead of her funeral. Kamile died along with her boyfriend Jamie Moore, 19, in a single vehicle crash on the A5 near Omagh, Co Tyrone on Tuesday evening Picture: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire

Final loving texts of teenage couple killed in crash read to funeral mourners

Loving messages exchanged between a teenage couple who were killed in a road crash have been shared at one of their funerals.

By David Young, PA

Kamile Vaicikonyet one of two teenagers killed in a car crash on the A5 in Omagh

Best friend of 'bubbly, out-going' girl killed on A5 makes emotional safety call

Convenience retail group Musgrave Northern Ireland has announced a £14 million investment in local produce with the launch of a new own-label range, which has been developed especially for SuperValu, Centra and Mace. Pictured are Desi Derby, director of marketing pictured with Trevor Magill, managing director and Julie Cherry, trading director at Musgrave NI

Musgrave Northern Ireland announces £14million investment in local food

Jamie Moore

Notorious road claims two teenage victims prompting fresh calls over A5

Data analysed by CompareNI.com shows the council areas that received the most and least parking tickets in Northern Ireland as they exceed 39,000 in one year

Most fined areas for parking tickets in Northern Ireland revealed

Pleasure Boys

UK Pleasure Boys XXL have second summer appearance in Northern Ireland confirmed

Ernie and Mollie Monteith (died 2023) with Ernie's sheepdog Ben

Funeral for Free Presbyterian Church stalwart Ernie Monteith

NIE Networks has launched a recruitment campaign to bring on board approximately 30 engineers during 2024. Picture: NIE Networks

NIE Networks launches recruitment drive across Northern Ireland

Missing Alex Breadon

PSNI ask public to help them find missing 13-year-old Alex Breadon

Education Minister Paul Girvan and Finance Minister Caoimhe Archibald at Strule Shared Education Campus, Omagh, to announce £150 million funding for the development of the site

World-leading Strule Shared Education Campus all about inclusion – O’Neill

Education Minister Paul Givan told his Stormont scrutiny committee that work on the Strule shared campus in Omagh is at a 'critical juncture'

Strule shared campus cannot proceed without restoration of funding – Givan

A Nissan dealership in County Tyrone is entering an exciting new era, with the addition of a van centre to its premises. Pictured is Andrew Crawford, Pat Kirk Nissan sales manager with sales executives Shaun McNamee and Raymond Peters

NI family-run car dealership enters new era adding van centre to its site

Omagh building remediation specialist firm has welcomed the news that NI is to receive an additional £1.2m to the Cladding Safety Fund, claiming that Northern Ireland is now moving in the right direction to ensure the region does not experience the harrowing high-rise fires that have happened in other countries. Pictured is James McCallan, co-founder of Anamore

NI industry expert welcomes additional £1.2 million to the Cladding Safety Fund

Morning View

Editorial: NI needs a debate about merits of shared education

The remains of the shed which had housed some 1000 piglets in Dungannon before the weekend blaze.

Farmer 'completely devastated' after 1000 pigs killed in fire, says councillor

General image of NI firefighters at work

'Over 1,000' piglets reportedly killed in fire at Co Tyrone farm

Pictured from Farming Life March 1983 - Harry Marquess, from Muckamore, who won the Farming Life Perpetual Challenge for the best pair of full French cattle, by the same sire, bred the exhibitor. Mr Marquess's, Harry, received the trophy from Farming Life editor, David McCoy. Picture: Farming Life archives/Darryl Armitage

Trail-blazing Charolais sells for 2,800gns at Portadown sale (1984)

The current rail network (in red) and the two new lines planned (in navy and orange)

Transport department defends blueprint for a new 200kmph railway line

An outline of the plans for the NI rail network

Northern Ireland would get 200kmph train line west of the Bann

Omagh’s Lewis Spratt claimed his first Arenacross win on his way to the runner-up spot in the AX Futures championship. Picture: UK Arenacross

Lewis Spratt realises ambition with Arenacross success in London

County Fermanagh countryside. Picture: Cliff Donaldson

Study reveals the best region in Northern Ireland to survive an apocalypse

NOW Group CEO, Maeve Monaghan welcomes the latest intake at the leading all-island social enterprise following a period of rapid growth. She is joined by Lauren Stanely, digital marketing executive, Phoebe Mann, social group facilitator, Margaret Allen, chief operating officer, Rebecca Waugh, employment officer, Anna Poland, marketing and communications manager, Rebecca Richardson and Abbie Crozier, community support officers

NI firm expands leadership team with appointment of Armagh lady as new COO

Morning View

Editorial: Hopes that Omagh can be part of a balanced approach to legacy

A dissident republican bomb exploded in Omagh on August 15 1998, killing 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins. Hundreds more were injured

Terms of reference published for Omagh Bomb inquiry

Responding to a UK inquiry into the Omagh bomb in 1998, Baroness Foster has slammed the failure of Dublin to conduct its own probe - and urged the UK government to sue Ireland over the matter. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Foster: UK should sue Ireland on Omagh

Healthy snack pioneer: Shauna Blair of Beam Snack Bars has won business with Tesco Northern Ireland

Beam's snack bars are free from 14 allergens, are plant-based and gluten free

A Speedometer

Man charged with driving offences after PSNI car rammed in Omagh

Enniskillen Castle illuminated purple for a previous Holocaust Memorial Day. Fermanagh and Omagh Council

Holocaust Memorial Day: special events and film screenings across NI

Traffic lights

Pedestrian left 'badly shaken' after vehicle 'drove through a red light'