AN ENNISKILLEN student will run the Amsterdam Marathon this weekend to raise funds for the charity who helped his father through cancer. Ryan Davidson, who is studying Graphic Design at Leeds University, is raising money for the ‘The Boom Foundation’, a charity based in the North who help patients suffering from synovial sacoma, a […]

WORK IS well underway at St Mary’s, Brollagh to allow young Derrygonnelly student Patrick Haren to join his classmates. The 12-year-old was diagnosed with severe ‘scoliosis’ as well as ‘kyphosis’ when he was young leaving him with a condition in which his spine is at an angle of over 100 rather than 180 degrees. A […]

EXACTLY one year on from being set up, the Belleek Community Carers Group (BCCG) has secured a lease on a premises to use as its base. The BCCG was established in September 2014 to provide support and leisure activities for all unpaid carers in the village of Belleek, its surrounding areas, and in neighbouring Donegal […]

  THE DECISION to merge the Collegiate and Portora grammar schools taken by Education Minister John O’Dowd was both irrational and unreasonable, the High Court in Belfast has heard. Proposals to close Collegiate Grammar and Portora Royal in Enniskillen, and merge them into one new school, are unlawful and should be quashed, a judge was […]

ON HIS visit to Fermanagh the  Duke of Kent, who is the President of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) yesterday officially opened its first permanent inland lifeboat station at Carrybridge. The station has been fully operational on Upper Lough Erne since March this year. The lifeboat station is the RNLI’s first specially built inland […]

Teleperformance, a leading outsourced customer service management company, is creating a centre in Enniskillen with 800 new jobs and securing 200 existing jobs. The jobs will be created over a number of years and will generate £12 million in salaries for the local economy. It is thought the jobs will have an average salary of […]