Shopping local easier than ever this year at KB Music


It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or at least it would be for local traders under normal circumstances. Despite the challenges, though, Fermanagh businesses have been working hard to make it easier and safer than ever for locals to support their own this Christmas. One such local business is KB Music in Enniskillen. […]

Author Laura sees online book sales peak through Covid


Like most people, author Laura Quinn has found lockdown challenging during Covid. The author of the successful ‘Blue Monkey’ series says she can’t run her business the way she usually runs it. She had to shift her focus to finding what was possible online and what a success it has been. Laura turned to things […]

Never a more important time to support your own!


Right now, it’s all about staying home to stay safe, but there is absolutely no reason not to keep shopping local while doing so. The seasonal shopping season is just around the corner, but with most people doing their bit to halt the spread of Covid by staying home as much as possible, many will […]

With two weeks to go uncertainty reigns on Brexit deals


FEARS are growing about the future of rural funding in Fermanagh post-Brexit, with the Westminster government being urged to give assurances tens of millions in lost EU financial support will be fully replaced.  Last week the agriculture and rural affairs ministers from the North, Scotland, and Wales, including Minister Edwin Poots, wrote an open letter […]

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Scrap exams for the sake of students, pleads councillor


THERE have been increasing calls for next year’s GCSE and A Level exams to be scrapped. Last week Cllr Sheamus Greene, pictured below, who is a father and a school bus driver, calling on the exams to be cancelled and for the North to follow the Welsh model of continuous assessment this academic year. Cllr […]

Christmas caution urged as Covid cases continue to rise


AS COVID continues to run rampant in Fermanagh, with SWAH admissions soaring and a heartbreaking rise in local deaths in the past week, the community is being urged to be as cautious as possible this Christmas.  The current infection rate in Fermanagh is almost 180, just under the rate in London which was this week […]

Community spirit saves the day for Santa’s ‘sleigh-by’


THE SPIRIT of Christmas is alive and well in Newtownbutler, where the a community came together to save Santa’s special visit to the village on Sunday after disaster struck.  In what has been described as an early Christmas miracle, the community showed the true spirit of the season when a massive operation was mobilised after […]

Older people on their own to be sent festive treats


OLDER people in Fermanagh who will be on their own this Christmas are to be sent a “small token”, possibly chocolates and mince pies, to help spread a little festive spirit locally.  The ‘Christmas Cheer’ initiative is part of a range of measures being taken by the Council to support the local community during what […]