“This is an extremely challenging position for us across all sites and in terms of how we do our business.”
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, […]
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 […]
Doctor shortage as SWAH struggles to attract top talent
IT’S PROBABLY the most admired hospital building in the country, yet the state-of-the-art South West Acute Hospital is still struggling to recruit the small number of medical staff it needs to operate properly. The Western Trust has insisted that no services are under threat at SWAH, despite a critical shortage of consultants at the hospital. […]
Positive cases double in a fortnight as hundreds tested
THERE ARE now well over twice the number of positive Covid cases in the local area than there were at the end of the lockdown, with almost as many people testing positive in the last seven days as there were throughout the first four months of the pandemic. However there have been no deaths from […]