Fermanagh businesses in social media spotlight


FERMANAGH was thrust into the social media spotlight once again last week when the online phenomenon Irish Biz Party descended on the county for its fifth annual conference. Around 150 business people from across the island of Ireland attended the conference at the Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen, which once again saw Fermanagh ‘trending’ on online. […]

Patrick all set for jump up to big school!


IN JUST OVER two weeks young Derrygonnelly student Patrick Haren will finally join his classmates at St Mary’s High School, Brollagh. The 12-year-old’s attendance at school had been in doubt due to budget cuts, but thanks to his mother’s persistence and money being released by the Department of Education for construction work at the school […]

Newtown man accused of stealing wedding ring


A 27-year-old Newtownbutler man accused of a number of thefts across the North as part of an organised crime gang has appeared in court. This includes the theft of an 83-year-old woman’s wedding ring from her finger, as well as her dead husband’s wedding band that was on a necklace she was wearing in an […]

New jobs will offer £2,000 less than living wage


ENNISKILLEN has been branded “the new India” by some social media commentators after it was revealed the 800 call centre jobs due to be created in the town over the next three years would have an average salary of less than £15,000. While news of the investment was widely welcomed last week, once the dust […]

Suspected cocaine cache in crashed van


Police are on the hunt for the occupants of a van that crashed in Enniskillen last night after around seven or eight kilos of suspected cocaine was found in the abandoned vehicle. Police discovered the crashed van on the Marble Arch Road after 9pm last night. A search of the van recovered “a substantial quantity […]