Forces join forces to tackle cross-border rural crime


FERMANAGH police have been joining forces with their colleagues in the south to help crack down on rural crime in the local area. Last week officers from Fermanagh joined their Garda colleagues for a joint operation focusing on rural crime and spanning the local border areas. “We are determined to prevent cross border crime and […]

Fracking research to continue despite opposition


DESPITE the strong local opposition to fracking in Fermanagh being repeated time and time again, Economy Minister Diane Dodds appears intent on continuing with “research” on the practice here in the county. As reported in the Herald last week, the consultancy firm hired by the Department of the Economy to carry out the research into […]

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Brexit has killed cross-border health scheme


IT HAS emerged the successful cross-border health initiative that helped many local patients get long-awaited treatment in the South has fallen victim to Brexit. As the consequences of the UK’s exit from the EU continue to become clear, it has emerged the initiative which allowed patients from the North to travel to the South and […]

Mystery of Fermanagh’s ‘Vineyard Road’


  A SPECTACLE on a Lisnaskea road where the hedgerows were adorned with tin cans and wine bottles for up to a mile is believed to have been created to highlight the problem of litter on our country roads.  Dubbed “Fermanagh’s Vineyard Road” by local Cllr Sheamus Greene, who shared a video online of the […]