ENNISKILLEN priest Fr Joe McVeigh has called on local churches and Catholic parishioners to take in a refugee family fleeing from war-torn regions.
Irvinestown mother used children for shoplifting
A WOMAN from Irvinestown went into a changing-room in the Marks and Spenser store in Omagh with her children in order to hide a number of items, incl
The nine lambs were stolen from a farm in Irvinestown
POLICE in Fermanagh are investigating a report of the theft of nine ewe lambs from an outfarm in the Lettermoney Road area of Irvinestown.
Castle lights up orange for suicide prevention day
ENNISKILLEN Castle was illuminated orange yesterday (Thursday) to mark World Suicide Prevention Day.
LATEST: Two vehicle road crash on Lough Shore Road
Emergency services were called to a two vehicle crash this morning (Friday) on the Lough Shore Road at Magho.
Lucky escape for driver whose car hit tractor prongs
A farmer in Derrylin who was driving his tractor with sharp prongs in a lowered position caught the side of a passing vehicle.
Drink driver crashed into combine harvester
A 48-year-driver who crashed into a combine harvester outside Enniskillen was almost four times over the limit. After the collision the driver, Damien Martin Cassidy, of Woodview Crescent, Trillick fled the scene and was found by police at a local pub. He was disqualified from driving for two years, given a four month custodial sentence, […]
Fermanagh takes action to aid in refugee crisis
THE PEOPLE of Fermanagh have taken action to tackle the refugee crisis across Europe, with a lorryload of supplies soon to be delivered to those in need. A group on Facebook entitled ‘Fermanagh – Calais. Refugee Solidarity Action’ was started on Thursday and since then six drop-points for donations have been established in the county […]
‘Very fabric of life here under threat from emigration’
Parish priest Fr Jimmy McPhillips warns that the drift of young people away from rural Fermanagh is having serious consequences for communities here. “It’s only two years since I arrived into the parish of Botha, a parish that has 560 families on record. But, these families are older than the average family because many of […]