Police in Newtownbutler have uncovered a cannabis factory


Officers conducted a search of a property in the area and seized 42 adult plants and equipment used to cultivate cannabis. A 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the cultivation of cannabis and possession of a Class B drug with intent to supply. To read more on this story see this week’s Fermanagh Herald. […]

District has highest number of outstanding road repairs


THE local council has heard how the Fermanagh and Omagh district has the highest number of outstanding road repairs, with 1339 surface defects.  Following a debate when Cllr Barry McElduff was critical of  the response from government to complaints about the poor conditions of our roads, the Council unanimously agreed to write to the Mnister […]

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Brexit has killed cross-border health scheme


IT HAS emerged the successful cross-border health initiative that helped many local patients get long-awaited treatment in the South has fallen victim to Brexit. As the consequences of the UK’s exit from the EU continue to become clear, it has emerged the initiative which allowed patients from the North to travel to the South and […]

Marty moves The Street Kitchen menu & venue


GREEN SHOOTS: Enniskillen chef, Marty McAdam, shows the green shoots of recovery are taking root in the town following the pandemic with the announcement that he is moving his “The Street Kitchen” concept  to permanent premises at Paget Lane. Still in Magee’s Spirit Store for now, Marty found just the right intimate setting with open-plan […]

Mystery of Fermanagh’s ‘Vineyard Road’


  A SPECTACLE on a Lisnaskea road where the hedgerows were adorned with tin cans and wine bottles for up to a mile is believed to have been created to highlight the problem of litter on our country roads.  Dubbed “Fermanagh’s Vineyard Road” by local Cllr Sheamus Greene, who shared a video online of the […]

Woman’s dead body “practically touching” husband’s boat


TRIAL: The trial of a man accused of murdering his wife during a boating incident on Lough Erne, County Fermanagh, has heard evidence from the first police officer to arrive at the scene. Stephen McKinney (44) of Castletown Square, Fintona is alleged to have murdered Lu Na, on a date between 11 and 14 April […]