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

Strabane Strabane (; ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Strabane had a population of 13,507 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th Open Government Li ...

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...

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. 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 fa ...

, 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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