DRINK spike testing kits will be used next year in Belfast bars and Fermanagh businesses could also benefit from the new initiative. After a council motion was passed at City Hall last week, Belfast pubs and other licensed premises will see test kits for drink-spiking introduced onto their premises by next year. Large student hubs like Belfast are more […]
Family desperate to get sick mother home from Croatia
AN Enniskillen family has been left devastated after their mother fell seriously ill while travelling on a religious pilgrimage and remains hospitalised in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Jennifer Tierney, 73, left on a Marian Pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina last Wednesday with her husband Dermot, and their daughter, Orla Humphreys. The group of 14 people were on a flight from Dublin Airport to Dubrovnik when […]
Man charged with attempted murder remanded in custody
A 25-year-old man has appeared in court charged with attempting to murder two police officers following an incident in which their car was rammed by a tractor. Matthew Nolan from Tattenabuddagh Lane, Fivemiletown is further charged with threatening to kill the officers, damaging three PSNI vehicles, driving while disqualified and without insurance. He was also […]
Attempted murder charge to be heard in court today
A 25-year-old man will appear at Enniskillen Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of attempted murder. He faces a total of 14 charges including two counts of attempted murder, three of criminal damage, driving when unfit through drink or drugs, driving while disqualified and other motoring-related offences. The charges relate to reports made on […]
Rory set for FLive homecoming gig
WITH Fermanagh Live fast approaching, one performer joining the line up for the arts festival for the first time this year is looking forward to his musical homecoming. Derrygonnelly man Rory Pierce is one-third of musical trio Iona Sound, a band that “stitches together” the sounds of Ireland, Scotland and Scandinavia. Rory, who plays the cello and […]
New Hulu show to be filmed in Bundoran and Ballyshannon
A NEW TV show by RTÉ and US streaming giant Hulu is set to be flimed along the Fermanagh border in the coming months, and will be screened to international audiences on release. The black comedy starring Siobhán Cullen, called ‘Obituary’, will centre on a small-town obituarist living in the west of Ireland, who resorts […]
Liquidators sell off former Quinn pubs and hotel
A CITY-CENTRE hotel in Dublin that was once owned by Sean Quinn has gone up for sale for €22 million, one of several former Quinn properties in the capital that have gone on the market in recent times. Buswells Hotel is being sold by liquidators for the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC). Located across from […]
St Kevin’s principal tells pupils to make a difference
Principal Gary Kelly paid tribute to pupils at the annual prize giving awards at St Kevin’s College telling them to be passionate about issues and ‘make a difference’. The Principal told the audience of how proud he was of the pupils in the manner in which they conducted themselves during the disruption that the Covid […]
Twenty weeks of road works set for town car park
AS THE Enniskillen Public Realm scheme edges closer to completion, a car park in the centre of the town is now set for a major makeover, which will see if partly closed until February. Last year Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey travelled to the county town to announce £470,000 in funding had been granted for works […]
No SWAH financial penalties paid for by Western Trust
THE Western Trust has strongly refuted reports elsewhere claiming that they have incurred financial penalties with regard to the running of the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) in Enniskillen. It had been reported that the Trust were held liable for failing to meet contractual obligations to a private sector company, Mitie FM Ltd. However, a […]