WHEN Danika McManus (26) – her mother works in BT call centre, Enniskillen – headed off to Sydney last year to take up a job in a bar, little did she think she would end up in the intensive care unit in the Prince of Wales hospital. Twice she was discharged’ by its A […]
‘Bog Butter’ proven to be 1,000 years past its best before date!
Fermanagh County Museum at Enniskillen Castle Museums has announced that a 35lb block of butter unearthed in a Fermanagh bog was made more than 1000 years ago. The Carbon 14 date test, which was carried out by Queen’s University on the ‘bog butter’ found by Jack Shannon over 30 years ago while he was […]
Brendan takes a bit of stick about his honeymoon break
POPULAR Fermanagh SDLP councillor, Brendan Gallagher, took a bit of stick at Monday nights meeting, his first since breaking his arm in a fall whilst on honeymoon. “It must have been some honeymoon”, joked the chairman, Alex Baird. However, the reality was far from funny at the time, the first time that Brendan, a […]
Motorcyclist evaded police by leaving shop through emergency exit
A 27-year-old Enniskillen man who tried to avoid police officers by escaping through a emergency shop exit has been banned from driving, Fermanagh Court has heard. Sean Edward Duffy, of Drumbawn, pleaded guilty to driving without insurance and no driving licence. On August 26 shortly after 3pm, police spotted Duffy driving a Suzuki motorbike and […]
Bad news for boy racers!
A CLAMP down on boy racers is hoped to stem escalating anti-social behaviour among young people in an affluent residential area in Enniskillen. In a bid to defuse mounting tension in the area over night-time engine revving, Fermanagh District Council will erect a barrier which will close off the Holyhill carpark in the evenings, […]
VIDEO: Garth Brooks ticket winners announced
THE WINNERS of tickets to Garth Brooks through the Fermanagh Herald and McBrien’s Nisa, Irvinestown, have been announced.
My miracle man: mother’s pride at how her special son defied all odds
WHEN her son was thirteen months old, Caroline Martin was told that he would not survive three months more.
Anglers bring fracking protest to Enniskillen
A CAVALCADE of up to 60 boats on trailers and fleets of cars wound its way through Enniskillen on Saturday as local fishermen gathered in a show of strength to voice their opposition to fracking. In their inaugural anti-fracking protest, the non-political anglers group FART (Fishermen Are Resisting Tamboran), claimed the controversial fracking process […]
‘Dodgy diesel’ causing misery for motorists
ILLEGAL fuel continues to cause damage to cars – while stations providing it continue to ‘get away with it’. After it was revealed that 467 filling stations have been caught stocking illicit fuel in the North in four years, a local MLA has estimated that there could be up to 25 filling stations in […]
Novena celebrates 25th year at the Graan
THE ANNUAL celebration of ‘hope’ at the Graan monastery in Enniskillen celebrates its 25th year this month. Speakers for the nine day ‘Novena of Hope’ include John McAreavey on the opening night, whose wife, Michaela, was murdered when the pair were on honeymoon in 2011. He is to speak about how he deals with […]