''The'' ''Strabane Chronicle'' is a newspaper based in

Strabane Strabane ( ; ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Strabane had a population of 13,172 at the 2011 Census. It lies on the east bank of the River Foyle. It is roughly midway from Omagh, Derry and Letterkenny. The River Foyle marks ...

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six Counties of Northern Ireland, counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional Counties of Ireland, counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an admini ...

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...

. The paper was started in 1896 as the ''Strabane Chronicle and Tyrone and Donegal Advertiser'' and was subsequently purchased by the

North West of Ireland Printing and Publishing Company The North West of Ireland Printing and Publishing Company (NWIPP) is a family-owned newspaper group based in the Irish province of Ulster, both in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The company was established in 1901 by the Lynch fam ...

, which was established in 1901 by the Lynch family. The masthead was changed in 1969 and the paper became known as the ''Strabane Chronicle.'' The January to June 2010 ABC figure for the ''Strabane Chronicle'' is 5,560 and it continues to be the highest selling newspaper in Strabane. Its sister titles include the ''Ulster Herald'', ''Tyrone Herald'', ''Donegal News'' (Monday and Friday editions), ''Fermanagh Herald'' and ''Gaelic Life''.

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