Police make appeal after Trillick vehicle hijack


POLICE are appealing for information following a report of a hijacking in the Main Street area of Trillick last night, Wednesday, October 4.  Detective Sergeant Reid said: “It was reported that at around 9.00pm the victim pulled into a filling station. When he was at the pay point a man got out of a dark-coloured […]

Special recognition for Greentown


THE managing director of Greentown said the company is ‘delighted’ to have obtained an award in recognition of its commitment to workplace diversity, equality and inclusion. The Florencecourt-based business recently picked up a Bronze Diversity Charter Mark award, becoming only the second Fermanagh company to receive the acknowledgement, after Encirc. “Greentown is delighted to have achieved this […]

Dressing up for charity


ST MACARTIN’S hall will be the place to be next month for those wanting to snap up a bargain dress and do their bit for charity. A dress sale for stillbirth and neonatal death charity, SANDS, is being organised by the Enniskillen Ladies Circle on October 7 between 10am to 3.30pm. Carol Moore, 32, from […]

Council clean up a sticky situation


AFTER the smoking ban was introduced in Ireland, chewing gum use increased by a staggering 30 per cent. To say it was a case of replacing one bad habit for another is debatable, but it takes up to five years for chewing gum to biodegrade, while in Singapore, it is banned altogether. Today discarded chewing gum is a major, and growing, […]

Concerns over ‘finality’ of SWAH consultation


THERE is concern over the apparent finality of the consultation on the removal of emergency general surgery (EGS) from the SWAH, after it emerged the Western Trust now deemed the process to be completed. A Freedom of Information disclosure to local campaign group Save Our Acute Services (SOAS) has revealed Trust chief executive, Neil Guckian, wrote […]

Alistair bounces back to help Ireland to sheepdog title


PETTIGO sheepdog trialist, Alistair Lyttle, bounced back from disappointment to help Ireland become World Champions. Alistair was part of the Irish team competing at the World Sheepdog Trials Championships at the Gill Hall Estate, Dromore in Co. Down. Having been highly tipped to win the individual title, the 48-year-old who has been sheepdog trailing since the […]

Belcoo GAA embarking on big project


THE Belcoo O’Rahilly’s GAA club has confirmed its applied for planning permission to build a new facility and grounds which will be an ‘excellent addition to the community’. Based on 62 Lattone Road in Belcoo, the club provides a place where children of all ages, and adults, can play Gaelic Games in a safe environment. […]

Gerry was ‘the heart and soul of the parish’


THE haunting skirl of bagpipe lament broke the cemetery hush as one of the Teemore area’s best known, and certainly most popular, personalities was bourne to the graveside. For Gerry McManus, so aptly described by former Teemore Curate, Fr. Maurice McMorrow PP, as “the heart and soul of the parish”, was, as he continued “surreal, […]