Editing Strabane (section)

==Culture==
===Sport===
The local [[Gaelic football]] team is [[Strabane Sigersons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/grants/0031038476|title=Strabane Sigersons GAA - Project|publisher=The Community Fund|accessdate=3 December 2022}}</ref>

[[Strabane Cricket Club]] and [[Fox Lodge Cricket Club]] are members of the [[North West Senior League]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/cricket/eglinton-to-host-mens-north-west-senior-final-3361515|title=Eglinton to host men's North West senior final|date=26 August 2021|newspaper=Derry Journal| access-date=3 December 2022}}</ref>

[[Strabane Athletic F.C.]] play in the [[Northern Ireland Intermediate League]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://causewaychronicle.co.uk/maiden-city-crowned-league-champions/|title=Congratulations to Maiden City, who are the 2021/22 Northern Ireland Intermediate League Champions|publisher=Causeway Chronicle|date=15 May 2022|access-date=3 December 2022}}</ref>

The town has three golf courses<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discoveringireland.com/strabane/|title=Strabane|website=www.discoveringireland.com|language=en|access-date=24 July 2018|archive-date=25 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033720/https://www.discoveringireland.com/strabane/|url-status=live}}</ref> prominent among which is the 18-hole Strabane Golf Course.

Angling has historically been popular in the Strabane area.{{fact|date=January 2025}} The town and immediate countryside is served by several rivers, with lough fishing at Moorlough and Lough Ash. Strabane is situated at the confluence of the rivers Mourne and Finn where they meet to form the Foyle. Strabane Glen, a steep wooded gorge adjacent to the town, is a designated ASSI (Area of Special Scientific Interest).{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

===Irish language===
Strabane has an Irish-medium nursery, ''Naíscoil an tSratha Báin'', which was founded in 1994,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gaelphobal.com/e/scoil2.asp|title=Naíscoil an tSratha Báin|access-date=30 June 2015|archive-date=11 October 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011031256/http://www.gaelphobal.com/e/scoil2.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a Gaelscoil (primary school).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gaelscoiluidhochartaigh.com/our_school_index.htm|access-date=30 June 2015|title=History of Gaelscoil Uí Dhochartaigh|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312222143/http://www.gaelscoiluidhochartaigh.com/our_school_index.htm|archive-date=12 March 2012}}</ref>

A common greeting in Strabane and the wider North West is "Have ye any bars?" This means "What's the news?" or "What's the latest gossip?"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Andrew |title=30 words and phrases only Derry 'wans' will know |url=https://www.derryjournal.com/lifestyle/30-words-and-phrases-only-derry-wans-will-know-1-7965832 |access-date=5 November 2018 |date=17 May 2017 |language=en |archive-date=5 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105202545/https://www.derryjournal.com/lifestyle/30-words-and-phrases-only-derry-wans-will-know-1-7965832 |url-status=live }}</ref> This may derive from Irish, from the phrase "barr nuachta," meaning "titbit," referring to a tasty piece of news.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/titbit|title=English-Irish Dictionary|date=1959|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=5 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105202649/https://www.teanglann.ie/en/eid/titbit|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Music and arts===
[[File:Let the Dance Begin (The Tinnies) - geograph.org.uk - 83262.jpg|thumb|The sculpture known locally as ''The Tinnies'' on the outskirts of Strabane, beside the roundabout near the [[Lifford]] turn-off]]
In 2007, the [[Alley Theatre (Strabane)|Alley Arts and Conference Centre]] (designed by architects [[Glenn Howells]] and [[Alan Jones (architect)|AJA]])<ref name="Alley">{{cite web |title=Alley Arts & Conference Centre |url=https://glennhowells.co.uk/project/alley-arts-conference-centre/ |website=Glenn Howells |access-date=9 January 2020 |archive-date=25 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025050535/https://www.glennhowells.co.uk/project/alley-arts-conference-centre/ |url-status=live }}</ref> opened to the general public, offering a 270-seat theatre, art gallery, tourist information centre and cafe-bar. The venue was Northern Ireland Building of the Year in 2008,<ref name="Alley"/> and won the Allianz Arts and Business Award 2009<ref name="DerryJ">{{cite news |title=Excellence award for Strabane's Alley Theatre |url=https://www.derryjournal.com/business/excellence-award-for-strabane-s-alley-theatre-1-2133645 |access-date=9 January 2020 |work=Derry Journal |date=19 January 2009}}</ref> and the Green Apple Award 2008. It has also hosted the All Ireland Confined Drama Finals (2008), the North West Music Festival, the Stage Write Schools Drama Festival, Sounds Like Summer Music Festival, Strabane Drama Festival, and the Johnny Crampsie Music Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.johnnycrampsie.com/|title=Johnny Crampsie|date=7 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107034439/http://www.johnnycrampsie.com/ |archive-date=7 January 2010 }}</ref>

Strabane plays host to a [[Saint Patrick's Day]] Parade each year. One of Strabane's most notable features are five {{convert|20|ft|m|abbr=on}} steel structures on the banks of the river. Designed by [[Maurice Harron]], they consist of two dancers and a fiddle player on the Lifford side, a flute player on the Strabane side and a drummer in the middle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mauriceharron.com|title=Maurice Harron-Artist-sculptor|publisher=Mauriceharron.com|access-date=2 May 2012|archive-date=17 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317050837/http://www.mauriceharron.com/|url-status=usurped}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://veryderry.com/db/location.php?pano=25|title=The Tinneys|publisher=Very Derry|access-date=2 May 2012|archive-date=12 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312222144/http://veryderry.com/db/location.php?pano=25|url-status=live}}</ref>