Anger at hospital carpark charges ‘kick in the teeth’


PEOPLE across Fermanagh have been left outraged following a decision made by the Department of Health (DoH) to restore car parking charges at SWAH. Jill Weir, pictured below, Health campaigner and Chairwown for the ‘Unison’ Fermanagh and Omagh branch told the Herald that she was “appalled” with such a decision, branding it a “kick in […]

£1.6m price for ‘one of the best farms in Fermanagh’


WHAT has been described as ‘one of the best farms in the county’ is up for sale for £1.6million. The extensive farm with high quality facilities and agricultural land in Fermanagh can be sold as whole or in two lots. The 202 acre property at Benmore Road, Coracloon, Churchill, Derrygonnelly, is on the books of […]

NHS ‘will not cope’ with flu outbreak and second wave


AS MANY people as possible in Fermanagh are being urged to get this year’s flu vaccine, with fears the local health service will struggle to cope with the double whammy of a flu outbreak and a second wave of Covid this winter. In fact, the public have been warned evidence suggests that catching both the […]

Death of caring Derrylin nurse


THE death of former Derrylin District Nurse Ita McTernan has evoked widespread sadness in the Derrylin area. Ita, who died after a lengthy illness, has been remembered by many of the elderly patients whom she attended over the years as ‘better than any doctor’. A Derrylin native she was born on 26th December 1949, third […]

‘After an hour it was like we were never away’


MONDAY marked an occasion that many of our young people and their families never thought would happen when lockdown was announced back in March. The unprecedented closure of schools right across Fermanagh left households in depths of fear and uncertainty as to what the future would hold. Despite this, over five months later it would […]