Police called out as house party gets out of control


LOCAL PEOPLE have been left outraged after a social gathering got ‘out of control’ over the weekend, as PSNI officers were left with no other option but to issue fines.  On Saturday night, local PSNI where called to a house party in the Enniskillen area after reports surfaced online.  In a statement to the Herald, […]


Sheamus Greene

Young people ‘shouldn’t be made Covid scapegoats’


FERMANAGH’S young people should not be “made the scapegoats” for the spread of Covid locally, and instead should be praised for how well they’ve been handling the crisis.  That’s the message of local Cllr Sheamus Greene, who is a school bus driver, in response to criticisms both on social media and on local radio of […]


Shop owner remembered as a part of old Enniskillen


MANY tributes have been paid to former tailor John McHugh, who died last week. Mr McHugh, aged 94 years, was a well known businessman in Enniskillen with a tailors shop in East Bridge Street for almost 50 years.  His son Sean described him as, “a quiet man you wouldn’t have seen or heard very much. […]


Border closed to all but essential travel


LAST WEEK it was only Donegal that was off limits for all but essential travel, this week there is nowhere south of the border where Fermanagh people can visit without a valid reason. As numbers continued to grow in the South, just like the North, it was announced on Monday the entire 26 counties were […]


We are realising that so much is out of our control


MORE than six months on from Covid-19 first became a topic of daily conversation uncertainty continues to cloud the long-term outlook of all aspects of life as we formerly knew it. With restrictions in place governing where we can freely go and what activities we can do, now perhaps more than ever people are seeking […]


Facemasks a choice? Dearbhail asks you to think again


FOR NEWTOWNBUTLER student Dearbhail Hogan, wearing a face mask is not just a matter of choice but literally a matter of survival. With a rise in anti-mask campaigners across the county, 24-year-old Dearbhail who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, a condition that mainly comes with muscle weakness, heart problems and respiratory issues that confine her to […]


Local man appointed new PSNI commander


FERMANAGH’S new district police commander, who started this week, was one of the key officers in helping co-ordinate the PSNI’s response to the current health crisis. Superintendent Alywin Barton took over from acting District Commander Supt Clive Beatty, pictured below, for the Fermanagh and Omagh district on Monday this week. It was something of a […]