Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

Fermanagh and Omagh District is a proposed Northern Irish local government district. Under the latest decision by the Review of Public Administration the district would be created by merging Fermanagh District Council and Omagh District Council.

The new district will cover all of County Fermanagh, as well as parts of County Tyrone, and will border counties Donegal, Leitrim, Cavan, and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The district would have an electorate of 74,414.cite web | title=Provisional Recommendations of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner for Northern Ireland| work=LGBC | url=http://www.lgbc-ni.org/index/provisional_recommendations.htm | accessdate=2008-09-26] The name of the new District was announced on September 17. The first election for the new district was due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7367253.stm "Northern Ireland elections are postponed", BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008] ]

ee also

* Local government in Northern Ireland

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