FERMANAGH’S four MLAs have racked up almost £1m in expenses over the last three years with coat stands, artificial plants, camcorders and vacuum cleaners among the items they’ve been claiming for.
Plans for ‘world class’ county museum unveiled
THE head of the Heritage Lottery Fund, which is donating £2,376,00 towards refurbishment of the Fermanagh County Museum, described it as ‘a genuinely world-class’ project.
Matty suffers collapsed lung after innocuous challenge on football field
Lisbellaw United player Matty Woods won’t be forgetting his side’s Irish Junior Cup clash with Coalisland Athletic any time soon.
Christmas soup kitchen at the Clinton Centre gets the thumbs down
AN idea floated on Facebook for a soup kitchen to be set up in the Clinton Centre, Enniskillen has been knocked on the head by centre management.
Lisnaskea’s beardy boys lose their whiskers!
LAST Saturday night’s sponsored beard shave, held in the Donn Carragh Hotel, Lisnaskea, proved a big hit, with the proceeds shared between Action Cancer’s ‘Gro Mo’ Fund for prostate cancer and Share Discovery Village.
Immigration offenders caught in raid on Chinese takeaway
AN ENNISKILLEN business is facing a £40,000 financial penalty after a government enforcement team entered the premises and found an illegal immigrant and a failed asylum seeker who escaped Home Office bail.
Landmark decision finally spells out merger of Portora and Collegiate
IN A LANDMARK moment for education in Fermanagh the amalgamation of Portora Royal School and Enniskillen Collegiate Grammar School has been approved.
BREAKING: New school for Devenish College approved by Minister
The Herald can reveal that Education Minister John O’Dowd has approved the economic appraisal for a new build for Devenish College on the Tempo Road, Enniskillen.
Vandals desecrate family gravestone on Devenish
THE GRAVESTONE of descendants of the ‘last prince of Fermanagh’, situated on Devenish Island, has been desecrated by vandals in a fire.
Heartless thieves again target Graan Mass-goers
UNSCRUPULOUS car thieves, who pounce when their owners are at Mass, have again targeted the Graan chapel, and got away with handbags.