Strabane also boasts several local football teams that play in various leagues.

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.

One of Strabane's most notable features are five steel structures on the banks of the river: two dancers and a fiddle player on the Lifford side, a flute player on the Strabane side and a drummer in the middle.

In this year, two new shopping centers, Strabane Square and Trinity Point, were constructed.

They have two children, James Alfred Nicholas Hamilton, styled Viscount Strabane ( born 30 October 2005 ) and Lord Claud Douglas Harold Hamilton ( b. 12 December 2007 ).

Many British Army regiments from England, Scotland and Wales served in Strabane at various times during the Troubles.

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.

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.

Stayed masts are however located at the UHF relay stations at Londonderry and Strabane ( respectively former BBC and ITA 405-line relays ) and at Black Mountain, the former ITA 405-line main station and current transmitter of Channel 5 that is sited adjacent to Divis.

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.

He was additionally created Baron Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane, in the Peerage of Ireland, on 2 September 1701.

However, a cross-border project is in planning, with of 2 + 1 road planned between the N13 / N14 junction and Strabane.

* 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.

) also ran a line from Strabane through The Laggan, a district in the east of the county, along the River Foyle into Derry.

Other teams include Omagh RFC, Clogher Valley RFC, Cookstown RFC and Strabane RFC.

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.

It now opens at 10 A. M. and boasts a coffee cart and two computers.

The current " Precentor " ( Head of Music ) is Tim Johnson, and the school boasts eight organs and an entire building for music ( performance spaces include the School Hall, the Farrer Theatre and two halls dedicated to music, the Parry Hall and the Concert Hall ).

The area also boasts two regional high schools, Tri-Tech and Delta High.

Basketball-Bundaberg boasts two professional teams, both competing in the Australian Basketball Association's Queensland Conference ( QBL ).

New York boasts a few similar sections, as well as two short expressway sections near Albany.

Downtown Americus boasts two prominent examples of historic restoration: the Windsor Hotel, built in 1892, and the Rylander Theatre, which originally opened in 1921.

Cluj-Napoca also boasts other newspapers of local interest, like Făclia and Monitorul de Cluj, as well as two free dailies, Informaţia Cluj and Cluj Expres.

The city also boasts one of Ireland's two swimming pools, at The University of Limerick Sports Arena, as well as one of Ireland's top basketball teams, the Limerick Lions, whose home is also at the world class facilities on the University Campus.

The town also boasts the two closest surf beaches to Nowra and is home to the Culburra Beach and Nowra Surf Club whose clubhouse is located at the northern end of Warrain Beach.

Tehachapi boasts two local orchestras.

Portola Hills boasts two separate club houses.

It boasts two picnic shelters, a tennis court and playground equipment.

The city now boasts two elementary schools, its own community center, hotel, church, industrial park, and expanding neighborhoods.

Ironwood boasts a rich cultural life that includes two theater organizations Theatre North and Ironwood Theatre.

The town boasts two traditional Dutch wind mills, two historic churches, two canals, and one of the Netherlands ' oldest taverns.

In her writing of " Our Town, Halltown as I knew it ," Matilda Winfrey gave the following report: " In 1925 our town boasts three churches, three general stores, one drug store, one bank, one feed mill, one telephone exchange, one canning factory, one blacksmith shop, two garages, one lumber yard, two barber shops, nine filling stations, three private homes in which one can procure rooms and comfortable beds at reasonable prices, two cafes, and Harvey's Chili Hut.

Columbia Park boasts tennis courts, two baseball fields, basketball courts, and a large children's play area.

In keeping with its seafaring heritage, Port Jefferson also boasts two recent America's Cup winners.

The town boasts two parks — Redwood Park features a beautiful playground with children's slides / activities, a swimming pool and several ballfields.

The borough boasts two churches, the Baptist Church on Elm Street and the Methodist Church on Laurel Street.