Strabane has a population of around 20, 000 and is the second-largest town in Tyrone, after Omagh.

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.

Strabane has an Irish-medium nursery named Naíscoil an tSratha Báin, which was founded in 1994, and a Gaelscoil ( primary school ).

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.

The wider area surrounding Strabane has many scenic forests and glens.

South Strabane Township has undergone a rapid burst of commercial and residential development starting in 1998.

A vandalised road-sign at nearby Strabane, County Tyrone, in which the " London " in " Londonderry " has been daubed over with black paint.

Strabane Manor, a 232 unit townhouse complex, was recently started along Fischer Road.

However, the Provisionals would rapidly become the dominant faction, both as a result of intensive recruitment and because some Official IRA units ( such as the Strabane company ) later defected to them.

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.

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.

In December 1971, the Official IRA killed Ulster Unionist Party Senator John Barnhill at his home in Strabane.

Twelve generations later, in the 1540s, his descendant Baron Alexander McAuslane returned to Ulster with his brother Andrew and settled in the Strabane area.

The most prominent being the rhyming weaver poetry, of which, some 60 to 70 volumes were published between 1750 and 1850, the peak being in the decades 1810 to 1840, although the first printed poetry ( in the Habbie stanza form ) by an Ulster Scots writer was published in a broadsheet in Strabane in 1735.

His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland ( now Northern Ireland ), in 1807.

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.

Dergalt, the ancestral home of Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, is near Strabane.

North Strabane Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

South Strabane Township is a township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The narrow gauge lines made Strabane one of the most important railway connections for County Donegal.

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.

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.

Named for Strabane, a town in Northern Ireland, this spelling was in use as late as the 1870s.

* William Brownlow ( 1726 – 1794 ), Irish MP for Armagh County 1753 – 1794 and Strabane

Assistant Commissioner Mark Orr recommended the name " Derry City and Strabane Regional Council " for the merged body, even though Unionist representatives had favoured a name which used " Londonderry " or avoided either word.

Money from her first publications had helped build the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, which was founded in 1846 in Strabane.

The R236 joins the N14 at a T junction for a short length running north from the Lifford and Strabane direction to Letterkenny, before another T junction leaving the main N14 and running via Carrickdawson, Momeen, Magheraghcloy, Castletown.

* 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 )

) 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 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.

Strabane had been moved out of the top 20 in the 2007 edition.

Strabane was once the most bombed town in Europe per size and was the most bombed town in Northern Ireland.

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

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 Joint Committee's Strabane — Derry line was closed in 1954, followed by the remainder of the narrow gauge system in 1960.