Chris’s TV comeback after losing out due to Fermanagh accent


  AFTER losing controversially on TV quiz show ‘Pointless’ just last year an Irvinestown civil servant has made amends by winning £4,000 on ‘The Chase’. In May 2013 Chris McGonigle and his father Richard appeared on the popular BBC quiz show Pointless. Their time on the show was to end on a sour note however […]


Mobile phone customers here ‘being ‘sold a pup’


Fermanagh mobile phone customers continue to be ‘sold a pup’ in regards to the service they receive from networks. That’s the view of local councillor Bernice Swift who has criticised the mobile phone networks for not supplying a full and proper service. “It’s logical that if we are constantly without service to make calls or […]


Meteoric rise up league tables for Collegiate, Portora


  THE principal of a school whose GCSE league table place jumped 36 places – up to number 11 in the North – has said ‘we are proud of our students every year’. Neil Morton, principal of Portora Royal in Enniskillen, saw his school climb to 11th from 47th in the most recent GCSE table, […]