Oisin Trust to benefit from Christmas Day dip


FOR THE 22nd year the annual Christmas Day swim will take place on Lough Macnean at Blacklion. The Macnean Icebreakers as they are known will again brave the freezing waters, with this year’s nominated charity the Oisin McGrath Foundation. One of the organisers Danielle Nolan, whose parents Sean and Patsy helped start the tradition back […]

Students help older folk get to grips with tablet technology


    “THERE’S LIFE after work – this is the best part” and that was certainly the case when U3A (University of the third age) senior citizens group teamed up with pupils from Devenish College pupils to learn the ‘in’s and out’s’ of technology.   With everything from taking selfies to simply learning how to […]

Death of ‘precious angel’ Fiona leaves family broken-hearted


THE LITTLE Enniskillen girl whose story in last week’s Herald touched the hearts of many of our readers passed away unexpectedly last Wednesday night leaving behind a heart-broken family. Little Fiona Ann Carroll-McGirr was the  only girl in the North and one of only two in Ireland  with Cockayne Syndrome a rare disorder, which occurs […]