Christopher’s chuffed after chance encounter with Mrs Beckham


Christ   A TRIP to compete with the Northern Ireland wheelchair basketball team culminated in not only a challenging few days for an Enniskillen teenager – but also a photo op with Victoria Beckham. Eighteen-year-old Christopher Carney flew out to Stoke Mandeville to play two matches with the side recently, and then on Saturday to […]


Big power cut caused by farmers spreading slurry


  OVER two and a half thousand residents in north Fermanagh have been without electricity in recent weeks due to slurry hitting overhead lines. Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has issued a strong safety warning to farmers and agricultural contractors after two serious incidences of slurry hitting overhead line cutting electricity supplies. Over 2,700 customers have […]


‘Bomb Housing Executive’, says SF councillor


  ONE LOCAL Sinn Fein councillor has suggested that a bomb should be placed under the headquarters of the Housing Executive due to their ‘abysmal record of traveller accommodation in the county’ – ‘metaphorically speaking of course’. The comments came from Stephen Huggett at Monday’s meeting of Fermanagh District Council. They were in response to […]


Trip to Australia that nearly ended in tragedy for Danika


  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 […]