Hundreds have gathered at a vigil for Conor Browne, a father from Strabane who died after being stabbed in Castlederg at the weekend.
Mr Browne, 28, was attacked during a night out with friends in the Co Tyrone town on Saturday.
He was taken to hospita…
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This week the draft recommendations of the ‘All-Island Strategy Rail Review’ were published by the Department of Infrastructure, alongside opening a consultation on those recommendations.
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Fr Declan Boland described last Thursday’s events as an ‘appalling tragedy’.
A5 crash: Funeral of Christine and Dan McKane takes place in Strabane
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Two siblings who died in a horror car crash last week have been laid to rest …
The community of Glenock gathered on Sunday to bid farewell to Julia McSorley, one of the victims of the crash.
The funeral mass took place in St Eugene’s Church, Glenock, where Mrs McSorley had been a “devoted parishioner” for many years.
The 75-year-…
Two people were still being cared for in hospital on Sunday following a fatal road collision in Co Tyrone.
Three died and four were injured when a minivan collided with a lorry on the A5 near Augnacloy on Thursday morning.
They were all members of the…
Hundreds of people assembled at the Holy Grotto on Townsend Street including family members of the deceased.
At the same time a vigil was being held in Creeslough, a Donegal community that suffered its own heartache in recent times, when the Tyrone peo…
Hundreds pay their respects at vigil held for three people killed in Co Tyrone crash involving minivan and lorry as victims are namedHundreds of people filled the Holy Grotto, Strabane, County Tyrone, to mournDan McKane, Christine McKane and their aunt…
A man in his 40s has been arrested in Strabane after a crash involving a lorry and a motorcycle left another man with serious injuries.
The crash happened in the Meetinghouse Street area of the Co Tyrone[1] town shortly after 12.30pm on Friday afternoo…
The deaths of three family members in a road crash in Co Tyrone is too hard to comprehend, a priest has said.
The victims – named locally as Dan McKane, his sister Christine and their aunt Julia McSorley – died when the minivan they were travelling in …