LIFELONG Spurs supporter Sammy Shaw is gutted he can’t get to Madrid to watch his side play in their first Chamions League final. Ballinamallard man Sammy Shaw admits it’s too costly to travel there and get a ticket. “It’s the biggest game in the club’s history, but it has just been priced out of most […]
Liverpool fan takes a chance on baby’s delivery date
Steven Craig, James McKenna and Aidan McCarron head to the Spanish capital to cheer on their beloved Reds in a bid to take their fourth title.
Load of rubbish: International anglers faced with mess
FERMANAGH’S lakelands are renowned for their beauty, but walk along the Queen Elizabeth Road and you’ll see something completely different. Just off one of the busiest roads in the town you’ll come across unsightly rubbish has strewn along the river bank of the Erne. Approaching the tourism season and annual fishing competition on the Erne […]
Come Dancing…Arlene takes short trip across border
ROMANCE was in the air on Saturday when DUP leader Arlene Foster made a short trip across the border to Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, to support the opening of a new Greenway project Mrs Foster and Irish Transport Minister, Shane Ross indulged in light hearted banter after cutting the ribbon on the proposed 63km Greenway which […]
Death of popular pharmacist who did much for commmunity
ONE of Enniskillen’s most respected pharmacists Herby Follis has died at the South West Acute Hospital after a short illness. Herbert Oscar Eric Follis had a reputation of freely giving advice on ailments human and animal. His colleague Paul Hughes, who worked closely with him in recent years paid tribute to Herby saying, “In this […]
Donal calls time on life behind the bar
ONE of Fermanagh’s best known bars for Country Music is changing hands at the end of this month. Carron’s Corner Bar on Ederney’s Main Street which has been owned and managed by Donal Carron since November 2006 has its final night on Sunday 27th. The new leaseholders Sean and Jude O’Donnell, from Killeter, take over […]
Death of leading musician and community man (92)
THE death of one of Fermanagh’s piping stalwarts, James Henderson, who died after a short illness, has caused great sadness throughout the county. Jim, of ‘Fairwinds’ Drummurry Gardens, Ballinamallard, died in the South West Acute Hospital on Saturday. Jim Somerville Henderson, BEM, a former High Sheriff of Fermanagh (1982), was in his 92nd year. A […]
£1.3m racked up from hospital carpark charges
SDLP councillor Paul Blake believes that the charges for hospital car parking at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen are ‘shocking’. He describes the car parking charges as, ‘a tax on the vulnerable in society’. New figures have re-ignited the debate on hospital car parking charges. Mr Blake’s comments were made following the news […]
Royal reward for champion of older folk
Among her many roles, Patricia is chair of the South West Ageing Partnership (SWAP).
Newborn babies receive knitted hats
THE spirit of giving is still very much alive this Christmas in Mount Lourdes Grammar School. Students have generously donated knitted hats to the Maternity Ward of the South West Acute Hospital. These hats were painstakingly knitted as part of their Post-16 Religious Education and Living Programme (REAL), which offers students the opportunity to […]