Omagh, Northern Ireland News

It is also understood that funding will be released for a new Omagh hospital and for a new ward at the Altnagelvin hospital in Londonderry.

"HARD decisions" on cutting services lie ahead for Fermanagh District Council if Central Government does not address the issues of rate convergence and legacy debt posed by the Review of Public Administration .

A Northern Ireland policewoman's lost phone, containing hundreds of photos and operational details has fallen into the hands of dissident republicans.

Laurence Robertson MP lays a wreath on behalf of the Northern Ireland affairs committee in the memorial garden in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

The Northern Ireland Affairs committee will visit the Co Tyrone market town, which was ripped apart when a car exploded on its busy main street in August 1998.

The party has described plans to reduce Northern Ireland's Westminster seats and create constituencies of roughly the same size as "atrocious". The plans would see Belfast losing a seat, dropping from four to three MPs.

An ex-serviceman who had been getting in fights in Suffolk is crediting a new project for turning his life around.

The man who died in a road accident on the Omagh to Newtownstewart Road in the early hours of Saturday was Peter Fugill, from Kinsale Park in Londonderry.

An author from Omagh has stumbled across the tragic love story of a young Irish couple who eloped on the Titanic to begin a new life when she found a family connection to the doomed ship.

Leslie and his wife Sandra bought the site for what was to become the Magherabuoy House Hotel in Portrush in 1985, and after an extensive building scheme, began trading the former restaurant and stately home as a hotel a few years later.

A trial scheme which means drivers can park without having to find coins for a meter is being extended beyond Belfast for the first time.

A dissident republican was convicted yesterday of shooting dead two British soldiers as they collected a delivery of pizzas outside an army base in Northern Ireland.

A faction opposed to the peace process was blamed for Thursday night's bombings in and around the centre of Londonderry and even though nobody was hurt, police said the terrorists were prepared to take whatever chances they thought necessary to cause destruction.

THERE were 3 road deaths in the Dungannon District in the past year, a slight increase on the previous year's toll of 2, according to provisional figures released by the PSNI.

Head-hunted as a resident magistrate in the 1970s, James McFarland had the onerous task of dispensing justice against the violent backdrop of the times.

PACEMAKER BELFAST 15/01/2012 Sisters From L-r Ann Sharlow , Mable Cahoon and Matt Cahoon 'brother in Law ' of Oswald Gilchrist at a memorial service for the 20th anniversary of The Teebane bombing that took place on 17 January 1992 at a rural crossroads between Omagh and Cookstown in County Tyrone, . A roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 ... (more)

He and the team are building the Omagh Mine, in Northern Ireland, from the bottom up by investing the cashflow from production into exploration.

The families of eight Protestant men killed in an IRA massacre at Teebane have voiced their frustration and anger that 20 years after the murder of their loved ones, not one person has been brought to justice.