The ''Tyrone Times'', more correctly known as the ''Tyrone Times and Dungannon Gazette'', was a newspaper based in

Dungannon Dungannon (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2021 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Counci ...

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. It was published by

Johnston Publishing (NI) Johnston Publishing (NI) is a large newspaper group in Northern Ireland consisting of Mortons Newspapers and the News Letter, and is a holding company of JPIMedia. The company was formed following Johnston Press's purchase of Century Newspapers ...

, which at the time was a part of

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, which was part of

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. The paper's name mimics the full title of its main rival, the '' Dungannon News and Tyrone Courier''. Unlike the ''Courier'', its name is not derived from an amalgamation of previous titles - the ''Times'' was first published in the early 1990s to build on the popularity of its sister publication in the

area, the Cookstown-based '' Mid Ulster Mail''. In June 2019,

announced that they were closing the ''Tyrone Times''.

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External links

Official website
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