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Healy Park Floodlights

These images were taken by the Official Tyrone Website Photographer Jim Dunne at the official switching on of the new floodlights in Omagh.

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1910 – 1920 Struggle for Survival

 

Whatever the explanation, it is clear that what the “Ulster Herald” in 1909 described as a “blighting lethargy” had affected the GAA in the county. Apart from a brief revival in 1913-14, this decline continued in the period leading up to the first World War, when there seems to have been no GAA activity at all in the county. Tyrone’s sole contribution to the GAA in this .....

1920–1930 A Second Spring

 

The outlook at the beginning of the 1920s for the GAA in Tyrone was poor. Even though other Ulster counties had struggled for survival in the turbulent period that had just passed, the neglect of the GAA in Tyrone was particularly acute. When the Ulster Council reconvened at the end of 1921 , it was reported that there were forty clubs in Derry, twelve in Cavan, fourteen .....