The mysterious humming noise which has kept most of Omagh up at night for a week was finally resolved after the Derry management team of Mickey Harte and Gavin Devlin were caught boring a tunnel from Owenbeg in Derry to Healy Park to spy on pre-match team-talks in the McKenna Cup.

The humming noise, which had been wrongly attributed to wind turbines, 5G masts, Kevin McAleer, and the DUP, only stopped late last night after a miscalculation by Devlin. Instead of boring up through the home changing rooms at Healy Park, Devlin and Harte’s heads appeared in the middle of the dancefloor in Sally’s of Omagh. Ironically, the band was playing ‘Back Home In Derry’ at the time.

A tunnel expert from the town explained:

“This is a quite sophisticated tunnel boring machine (TBM) Harte was using. He’d need to be getting paid plenty to afford that. Cutting through the Sperrins is no mean feat, but no better man than Horse Devlin to drive it on. It also explains why we’ve only heard the noise recently in Omagh. Gortin was hearing it the previous week.”

Although Harte refused an interview, a smirking Gavin Devlin confirmed that there’s definitely gold in the Sperrins, ‘or there used to be’ he said whilst winking.