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| Omagh district | |
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| Geography | |
| Area: - Total - % Water | Ranked 2nd 1,130 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ: | Omagh |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-OMH |
| ONS code: | 95K |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density | Ranked 16th 47,952 42 / km² |
| Community: | Catholic: 69.1% Protestant: 29.7 |
| Politics | |
| Omagh District Council http://www.omagh.gov.uk | |
| MP: | Pat Doherty |
Omagh is a town in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule.
It received international attention with the Omagh bombing of 1998, which killed 29 people — 13 women (one pregnant) 9 children and 6 men.
The Ulster-American Folk Park in Omagh includes the cottage where Thomas Mellon was born in 1813, before emigrating to Pennsylvania, in the United States when he was five. His son Andrew W. Mellon became secretary to the US Treasury.
The town is also the home of Irish League club Omagh Town FC.
In both the Westminster Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly, Omagh is completely contained within the West Tyrone constituency.
Omagh is the birthplace of internationally renowned song writer Jimmy Kennedy, who wrote Red Sails in the Sunset, the Hokey Cokey and The Teddy Bears' Picnic. Also borne in Omagh is Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park.
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Antrim | Ards | Armagh | Ballymena | Ballymoney | Banbridge | Belfast | Carrickfergus | Castlereagh | Coleraine | Cookstown | Craigavon | Derry | Down | Dungannon and South Tyrone | Fermanagh | Larne | Limavady | Lisburn | Magherafelt | Moyle | Newry and Mourne | Newtownabbey | North Down | Omagh | Strabane |
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