Local MLA Tom Elliott has hit out at the ‘failure’ of the Agriculture Department to relocate all Forest Service staff to Fermanagh after it was revealed the number of jobs under consideration has been scaled down by almost half.
Council headquarters at Erne Hospital would be ‘putting knife into Omagh’
One West Tyrone councillor has suggested such a decision would be ‘putting the knife into Omagh and turning it’.
Your chance to win tickets to Garth Brooks!
HE HAS sold out five dates in Croke Park – but you could be in with a chance of nabbing a hot ticket.
Concerns raised over meals on wheels
Question marks hang over the future of Fermanagh’s Meals on Wheels scheme.
Fermanagh businesses breathe sigh of relief over 0% rates rise
Businesses across Fermanagh have “breathed a sigh of relief”, according to some local councillors, after a zero percent district rates rise was rubber-stamped at this month’s monthly council meeting, making it a first non-mover in 15 years.
New Chief Executive Hegarty hails ‘fantastic opportunity’
Brendan Hegarty has been confirmed as the Clerk and Chief Executive of the new Fermanagh and Omagh Council and has said everything possible will be done to ensure that all the staff working within the councils are retained once the two bodies are formally amalgamated next year.
Latest attack knocked out ‘Quinn’ phone lines
The petrol bomb attack near the former Quinn Group HQ in Derrylin knocked out communications to the firm’s vast complex and people in the surrounding area yesterday, Tuesday.
Pupils wowed by ‘real life princess’
LOCAL SCHOOL CHILDREN were treated to a visit from ‘a real life princess’ last week when the 2013 Rose of Tralee Haley O’Sullivan dropped in.
Latest: Petrol bomb attack at former Quinn HQ in Derrylin
Police in Enniskillen are appealing for information after a report of a petrol bomb attack at premises at the Ballyconnell Road, Derrylin area last night
New signs – but no lights for notorious blackspot
THE Mossfield Road, a notorious accident hotspot in the county, is to be made safer with increased signage at one of its junctions.