Fermanagh and Omagh

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Fermanagh and Omagh
District
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryNorthern Ireland
StatusDistrict
Incorporated1 April 2015
Government
 • TypeDistrict council
 • BodyFermanagh and Omagh District Council
Time zoneUTC0 (GMT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (BST)
Websitehttp://www.fermanaghomagh.com/

Fermanagh and Omagh (Irish: Comhairle Ceantair Fhear Manach agus na hÓmaí) is a local government district that was created on 1 April 2015 by merging Fermanagh District and Omagh District. It covers most of the Southwest of Northern Ireland. The local authority is Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, which likewise replaced Fermanagh District Council and Omagh District Council.

Geography

It is located in the southwest of Northern Ireland, covering all of County Fermanagh and parts of County Tyrone. It borders counties Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The district has an electorate of 74,414.[1] The name of the new district was announced on 17 September 2008.

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council replaced Fermanagh District Council and Omagh District Council. The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but in April 2008 Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011.[2] The first elections took place on 22 May 2014 and the council acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 2015.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Provisional Recommendations of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner for Northern Ireland". LGBC. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
  2. ^ Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008