Emmet Mcelhatton

1 month ago | wearetyrone.com | Emmet Mcelhatton

Just as there is no feeling more miserable than being housebound by sickness on a sunny day, neither is there any relief as resounding as waking up on the lazy side of the scratcher and hearing the heavens hammering hard upon the roof.

2 months ago | wearetyrone.com | Emmet Mcelhatton

I used to look forward to the weekly ritual of sitting down to write my column, but, since the New Year, the whole process has felt a wee bit icky. For the last four weeks, you see, I’ve known something that most of you have not. And how would you, for god’s sake? Like the man who stole the mirror from McCann’s, I’ve been keeping quiet about it.

2 months ago | wearetyrone.com | Emmet Mcelhatton

A TIMETABLE has been published ahead of the resumption of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, detailing when the accounts of bereaved families will be considered. The public inquiry into the atrocity, which saw a Real IRA car bomb kill 29 people, including unborn twins, and three Donegal schoolboys in the county town in August 1998, will continue at the Strule Arts Centre Tomorrow (Tuesday). Its aim is to establish whether the attack could reasonably been prevented by security forces.

2 months ago | wearetyrone.com | Emmet Mcelhatton

A RECENTLY retired teacher from Omagh County Primary School is raising money this month in memory of a former pupil who was killed in a road traffic collision back in 2018. Joan Clements is now three weeks into the Step Up for Air Ambulance challenge, which she is completing in remembrance of 21-year-old Kyra McKinley. The young Omagh woman, who passed away from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash on the Deverney Road back in 2018, was once a student of Mrs Clements.

Jan 22, 2025 | wearetyrone.com | Emmet Mcelhatton

FARMERS from across Tyrone said their final goodbyes over the weekend to Jennifer Hawkes, a ‘universally respected’ member of the county’s agricultural community. The highly-regarded Omagh woman, who passed away peacefully on January 15 following a struggle with cancer, was laid to rest in the county town’s Dublin Road Cemetery on Saturday. Her funeral service, which was held in Omagh Methodist Church, was attended by a large congregation of family, friends, acquaintances and admirers.