[8] In accordance with the Benson Report submitted to the Northern Ireland Government in 1963, the Ulster Transport Authority closed the Portadown – Omagh – Londonderry main line in 1965,[9] leaving Tyrone with no rail service.

[11] Omagh Town Hall, which opened on 29 September 1915, hosted a number of notable performers, including the actors Anew McMaster, Micheál Mac Liammóir and Jimmy O'Dea, before it was demolished to make way for the Strule Arts Centre in 1997.

[12] Omagh became the focus of international media attention when, on 15 August 1998, the Real Irish Republican Army exploded a car bomb in the town centre.

A group of former Provisional IRA members calling itself the Irish Republican Army made its first public statement later that month claiming responsibility for the killing.

[13] In February 2023, an off-duty senior police officer was shot and critically injured at a sports complex in the town.

Of these: On census day 2011 (27 March 2011), there were 19,659 people living in Omagh, accounting for 1.09% of the NI total.

Flood-walls have been built to keep the water in the channel (River Strule) and to prevent it from overflowing into the flood plain.

[32] The following wards cover the town:[citation needed] The central urban area south of River Strule forms the townland of Omagh[34] in the civil parish of Drumragh,[35] the adjacent area north of the river forms the townland of Lisnamllard[36] in the civil parish of Cappagh (Upper Strabane portion).

They include:[38] Omagh is the main retail centre for Tyrone, as well as the West of Ulster (behind Derry and Letterkenny), due to its central location.

Opened in 2007, this civic building is located in a newly created public space which was reclaimed from a formerly disused area between the River Strule and High Street.

[citation needed] The Mid Ulster Film Festival, established in 2004,[52] took place in Omagh until its cancellation in 2010.

[53] The 'Omagh Accessible Shared Inclusive Space' (OASIS), a £4.5 million facelift for Omagh's riverbank, was funded by the European Union and planning approved in 2013.

[55] The Ulster American Folk Park, near Omagh, includes the cottage where Thomas Mellon was born (in 1813) before his family emigrated to Pennsylvania in the United States.

The park is an open-air museum that explores the journey made by the Irish (specifically those from Ulster) to America during the 1800s.

[61] The Government of Northern Ireland made the GNR Board close the Omagh – Enniskillen line in 1957.

In accordance with The Benson Report submitted to the Northern Ireland Government in 1963, the UTA closed the "Derry Road" through Omagh on 15 February 1965.

[69] The following is a list of religious buildings in Omagh:[citation needed] The town has two Gaelic football clubs, Omagh St. Enda's, which plays its home games in Healy Park, and Drumragh Sarsfields, which plays its home games at Clanabogan.

Strathroy Harps FC are the only Omagh and Tyrone team to win the Irish junior cup twice in 2012 and 2013.