He started the 2005 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, but had to be replaced because of injury, making him the first Omagh man to win an All-Ireland.
Sean McDermott - American Football manager and alumni of University of Liverpool Law School
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Phil Taggart - BBC Radio 1 DJ, presenting the 10pm-12am slot, previously Nick Grimshaw's slot
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Active in the Ulster Farmers' Union and in Unionist associations, he achieved senior office in the Orange Order and the Royal Black Institution and served on Omagh Rural District Council from 1952 until his death.
On 10 October 2000 the BBC television show Panorama named Murphy as one four people connected with the Omagh bombing, along with Seamus Daly and Liam Campbell.
Drumragh Integrated College, an integrated Secondary school in Omagh, County Tyrone
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River Drumragh, runs through Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Fields Of Omagh retired after his second Cox Plate win, and now resides at Living Legends, the International Home of Rest for Champion Horses located in Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale, Victoria, Australia.
He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks.
72 Squadron's relationship with Northern Ireland and the young people living there was honoured upon their departure there when Air Cadets in the newly formed Omagh Squadron chose 72 as their Squadron Number.
Support for the club derived mainly from the towns of Omagh, Castlederg, Dromore and Ballygawley.
He was son of the Rev. Samuel Haliday (or Hollyday) (1637–1724), who was ordained presbyterian minister of Convoy, County Donegal, in 1664; then moved to Omagh in 1677; left for Scotland in 1689, where he was successively minister of Dunscore, Drysdale, and New North Church, Edinburgh; and returning to Ireland in 1692, became minister of Ardstraw, where he continued till his death.
In February 2011, The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti, a Second Movement production first staged in 2006, was performed in a tour of Northern Ireland by NI Opera in association with Second Movement, with performances in the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh; The Great Hall, Downpatrick; Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey and The Market Place Theatre, Armagh.
The name Seskinore is derived from the Irish Seisceann Odhar, which means "brownish marsh/bog", and the area to the north on the way to Omagh is characterised by lowland raised bog.
Currently, the project brings teens from eleven cities in Northern Ireland, including Banbridge, Belfast, Derry, Omagh, Coleraine, Strabane, Sion Mills, Limavady, Portadown, Castlederg, Enniskillen and Cookstown.