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Strabane also boasts several local football teams that play in various leagues.
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) also ran a line from Strabane through The Laggan, a district in the east of the county, along the River Foyle into Derry.
Owen Roe O ' Neills, Leckpatrick can also claim part of Strabane with the North part of the town following under their parish umbrella.
Strabane also has an excellent par 69 parkland golf course.
Strabane also has a large number of road runners.
Strabane also has a soccer team called Strabane and Sion Swifts Athletic formed in 2011 when the joining of Sion Swifts and Strabane United took place.
Other Irish language groups including the Craobh Mhic an Chrosáin branch of Conradh na Gaeilge and Gaelphobal, an umbrella group for Irish language organisations, are also active in the Strabane District.
The venue has also hosted the All Ireland Confined Drama Finals ( 2008 ) and is the current home of the North West Music Festival, The Stage Write Schools Drama Festival, Sounds Like Summer Music Festival, Strabane Drama Festival and the Johnny Crampsie Music Festival.
Strabane also has a flute band, The Strabane Memorial Flute Band, which attends Irish republican parades and similar events throughout Ireland, Scotland and the USA.
* Guy's Restaurant, in his birthplace of Strabane, is also named after Carleton.
Supported by Munster and Connacht, and assisted also by English contingents and by the MacDonnells of Antrim, O ' Neill took the castle of Ballyshannon, and after devastating a large part of Tyrconnell he encamped at Knockavoe, near Strabane.
Castlederg is cited as " the most bombed small town " in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, though this dubious honour was disputed, with nearby Strabane ( although Strabane is a much larger town in which district council Castlederg is a part of ) also trying to claim the title.
It also contains parts of the old Foyle constituency and now shares exactly the same boundaries as the districts of Omagh and Strabane.
Strabane and boasts
Strabane boasts two brass bands: Strabane Concert Brass, five times national champions, and St Joseph's Brass Band, current NIBA Grade 2 Champions.
Strabane and local
Over the next few years customs agreements between the two states enabled GNR trains between Strabane and Derry to pass through the Free State without inspection unless they were scheduled to serve local stations on the west bank of the Foyle, and for goods on all railways to be carried between different parts of the Free State to pass through Northern Ireland under customs bond.
At the local elections in May 2011, members of Strabane District Council were elected from the following political parties: 8 Sinn Féin, 4 Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ), 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party ( SDLP ), 1 Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) and 2 Independent Nationalist.
The local Gaelic football team, Strabane Sigersons, and the hurling team, Strabane Seamrogaí, are ever expanding.
Strabane and teams
Other teams include Omagh RFC, Clogher Valley RFC, Cookstown RFC and Strabane RFC.
Strabane and various
Many British Army regiments from England, Scotland and Wales served in Strabane at various times during the Troubles.
After their first gathering in the Dart Room of the Royal Coachman, meetings were held in Rockton, Greensville, Waterdown, Carlisle, Clappisons Corners, Strabane, and Clyde as various symbols were hotly debated.
Strabane and .
* James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Abercorn ( c. 1604 – c. 1670 ), created Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane in the Peerage of Ireland in his father's lifetime.
* Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane ( c. 1606 – 1638 )
His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland ( now Northern Ireland ), in 1807.
His paternal grandfather was an Episcopal priest born in Camus, near Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from London, England.
It contains the headquarters of Strabane District Council.
Strabane has a population of around 20, 000 and is the second-largest town in Tyrone, after Omagh.
Strabane suffered huge economic damage in 1987 when much of the centre of the town was flooded.
Strabane is twinned with Zeulenroda in the state of Thuringia, Germany.
Strabane once had the dubious distinction of the highest unemployment rate in the Industrial World, during the height of The Troubles.
In August 2005, a Channel 4 television programme presented by property experts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer, named Strabane as the eighth-worst place to live in the United Kingdom, largely because of the high unemployment rate.
Strabane had been moved out of the top 20 in the 2007 edition.
Strabane suffered extensive damage during the Troubles, from the early 1970s and continuing throughout much of the 1990s, with bombings and shootings commonplace: Irish Republican paramilitary groups, mainly the Provisional Irish Republican Army, regularly attacked the town's British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) bases.
Strabane was once the most bombed town in Europe per size and was the most bombed town in Northern Ireland.
Strabane has recently become involved in the Ulster Project International, sending Catholic and Protestant teenagers to the United States for prejudice-reduction work.
The Irish gauge Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway ( L & ER ) reached Strabane in 1847, Omagh in 1852 and Enniskillen in 1854.
The Finn Valley Railway ( FV ) opened from Strabane to Stranorlar in 1863.
The gauge Strabane and Letterkenny Railway opened in 1909 and was worked by the Joint Committee.
The narrow gauge lines made Strabane one of the most important railway connections for County Donegal.
The Joint Committee's Strabane — Derry line was closed in 1954, followed by the remainder of the narrow gauge system in 1960.
also and boasts
Participants may also make boasts of their own deeds, or oaths or promises of future actions.
The team's history also boasts the careers of Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis, and Ed Reed.
Dar es Salaam also boasts some of the finest schools in Tanzania, most of which are private.
London Docklands also now boasts its own free newspaper, The Docklands, launched in 2006 by Archant London, following the purchase of Docklands News, the ex LDDC newspaper which was then owned by Ivy Communications.
France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.
The Island also boasts one of the few active Real Tennis courts in the UK.
An IRIN news report of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs noted: " Hezbollah not only has armed and political wings – it also boasts an extensive social development program.
Namibia also boasts world-class civil aviation facilities and an extensive, well-maintained land transportation network.
The city also boasts a GDP per capita of 200, 4 % ( 2008 ) of Poland's average.
It also boasts one of the best developed tourist industries in Africa.
The School also boasts an extensive Drug Information Center ( DIC ), recognized as possibly the largest DIC in the Northeastern United States.
The readership also differs greatly ; one of Britain's most well-known tabloids, the Daily Mail, boasts a mostly female readership, whereas that of The Morning Star, in keeping with its political leanings, is of unionised labourers.
The collection also boasts extensive histories of colonial Victoria and the Colony of Vancouver Island among other documents.
The building also boasts one of the largest convention centres in the world.
As well as an art gallery, falconry courses and a café, Lower Loxley also boasts a garden and a museum.
Drogheda also boasts a long tradition of its very own pantomime, which is usually held in January / February of each year.
The area also boasts two regional high schools, Tri-Tech and Delta High.
* The church of St. George is also known as the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Helper of the Modenese People, who boasts a venerated image over the high altar.
Echuca also boasts a dedicated floating restaurant the MV Mary Ann.
A boat house by the Pykara falls and Dam is added attractions to the tourists. Pykara boasts of well protected fenced Sholas, Toda settlements, undistributed grassy meadows and also a good wildlife habitat.
The natural parks of the region include the Abruzzo National Park, the National Park of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga the National Park Maiella and Sirente Velino which every year attract thousands of visitors due to their nature and rare species of wildlife such as Abruzzo chamois ; also the region boasts many natural reserves and areas protect.
CSUN also boasts a leading engineering, business, and film program.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell also makes parallels to the slaying of Leviathan by YHWH, about which YHWH boasts to Job.
Besides the pure beauty of Appalachia, the park also boasts extensive trails, campgrounds, a venue for large group picnics, a small hilltop lake and of course, Macedonia Brook.
Mercer also boasts its NJTransit's stations, including Trenton, Hamilton, and Princeton Junction.
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