A 51-year-old pub licensee has been fined £1500 after more than 130 people were found drinking on his Magheraveely premises after hours. Basil Wiggins, of Mullynagowan, Newtownbutler, has been the license holder at the Oasis Bar, Magheraveely for 20 years and was convicted at Enniskillen Magistrates Court of both selling alcohol outside permitted hours and […]

  AN ENNISKILLEN student will run the Amsterdam Marathon this weekend to raise funds for the charity who helped his father through cancer. Ryan Davidson, who is studying Graphic Design at Leeds University, is raising money for the ‘The Boom Foundation’, a charity based in the North who help patients suffering from synovial sacoma, a […]

WORK IS well underway at St Mary’s, Brollagh to allow young Derrygonnelly student Patrick Haren to join his classmates. The 12-year-old was diagnosed with severe ‘scoliosis’ as well as ‘kyphosis’ when he was young leaving him with a condition in which his spine is at an angle of over 100 rather than 180 degrees. A […]

EXACTLY one year on from being set up, the Belleek Community Carers Group (BCCG) has secured a lease on a premises to use as its base. The BCCG was established in September 2014 to provide support and leisure activities for all unpaid carers in the village of Belleek, its surrounding areas, and in neighbouring Donegal […]

  THE DECISION to merge the Collegiate and Portora grammar schools taken by Education Minister John O’Dowd was both irrational and unreasonable, the High Court in Belfast has heard. Proposals to close Collegiate Grammar and Portora Royal in Enniskillen, and merge them into one new school, are unlawful and should be quashed, a judge was […]

ON HIS visit to Fermanagh the  Duke of Kent, who is the President of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) yesterday officially opened its first permanent inland lifeboat station at Carrybridge. The station has been fully operational on Upper Lough Erne since March this year. The lifeboat station is the RNLI’s first specially built inland […]