FOR Patrice Ryder, from Belleek, the decision to attend the Fermanagh jobs and careers fair last year at the South West College proved a positive one.
Duo hoping to spread site through sporting market
AN INNOVATIVE online coaching website, the brainchild of two Fermanagh sportsmen, aims to provide a community for coaches to interact, share good practice and develop coaching from grassroots to professional sports.
Residents call for new 30mph limit for speeding motorists
FOR many Fermanagh people it’s the main road to Belfast, but for Clabby residents the main Tempo to Fivemiletown road – and the high number of speeding motorists who use it – is a danger to their children.
Tragic Belleek orphan girls to be recalled in poignant ‘homecoming’
LAST Saturday, a descendant of a Belleek orphan who was an inmate in Ballyshannon Workhouse and was shipped off, along with her sister and 17 others to Australia at the height of the Potato Famine bridged a 166-year gap.
Fugitive parrot Lolly leaves distraught owner in a flap
IN ONE of the more unusual cases of a missing pet, a local man was reunited with his beloved African parrot last week, almost a month after it originally disappeared.
Firebrand pastor or peacemaker: tributes from across political divide to Ian Paisley
THE DEATH of former First Minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley, has led to widespread attempts to pin down just who the 88-year-old was and what he will be remembered for.
Man (25) who assaulted police officer during arrest had tried to take an overdose
A 25-year-old Fivemiletown man who in his own words drank ‘10 or 12’ bottles of beer and ten shots of vodka and then assaulted a police officer had tried to take an overdose earlier in the night.
Closure of bank to leave gap in Lisnaskea Main Street
LOCAL businesses have expressed shock at the pending closure of the Lisnaskea branch of the Danske Bank on 5th December this year.
Double rapist living in rural Fermanagh
IT HAS emerged that a notorious Belfast rapist who twice raped a teenage schoolgirl and then rang her mother to gloat about what he had done, is now living in Fermanagh.
MLA has doubts over 65 proposed Forestry Service jobs for Fermanagh
A TOTAL OF 67 Forest Service jobs jobs will come to Fermanagh by June 2015 it has been confirmed, but one local MLA remains unconvinced on where the new staff will be accomodated.