Poor broadband growing worry for local farmers


FUNDING for our forests, animal health, the environment and fisheries, and for food and farming is all to be slashed by the newly restored Stormont Executive.   On top of that, a new digitalisation plan by the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) could see farmers here in Fermanagh disadvantaged due to the county’s […]

Care homes are taking a ‘case by case’ approach


THE Public Health Agency (PHA) has not issued any additional guidelines for care homes here to follow in relation to the spread of Covid-19. A spokeswoman for the PHA told the Herald that any visiting restrictions placed on homes would be on a case-by-case basis, and only where necessary. “If nursing or residential homes have […]

Spread of virus now seems inevitable, warns local GP


IF AND when Covid-19 hits Fermanagh those in our community who are more vulnerable to the virus have been urged by local doctors to take special measures to protect themselves. Both Ederney GP Dr Brendan O’Hare, pictured below and Enniskillen GP Dr Johnny Guette, from Devenish Practice, have stressed that, at the time of going […]

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St Patrick’s Day parade cancelled


St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Enniskillen will not take place this year amid growing concern about coronavirus. On Tuesday night after 8pm the Council confirmed the event was cancelled. The news came late in the day with the thought locally at the time being that the Fermanagh parade was set to go ahead in the […]

Water hiding potholes from unwitting Lisnaskea drivers


LOCAL people have been up in arms over issues regarding unsafe potholes on the Castle Lane road, Lisnaskea.   One local resident informed the Herald, “It’s a concern for anyone driving, the fact they have been reported and little is being done about it is a real concern. If you are in the front living […]

Old school to rescue as floodwaters take toll…


‘WHERE there’s a will there’s a way’, is the motto for pupils at Killyhommon Primary School, Boho, who had to relocate to the local community centre for lessons due to excessive flooding on school grounds.  For two consecutive days last week, school principal Mrs Resha Rasdale made the decision to move lessons so that, “more […]

Local crime rate on the rise


CRIME is up in Fermanagh, with over 150 extra incidents reported in the local area so far this year, but police have assured the local public the county remains one of the safest in the North.  Last month the Council wrote to the PSNI regarding the alleged attempted shooting of an off duty police office […]

Road surface is blamed for crashes at same spot


THERE have been calls for urgent action to be taken after four cars crashed at the very same spot on a Brookeborough road in the past week.  Since the beginning of this winter, at least nine cars are thought to have crashed at the same corner on Teiges Hill Road, between Brookeborough and Moanes Cross, […]