Fermanagh schoolchildren are being “almost encouraged” to go into school even when they have possible Covid symptoms, it has been claimed.
Special shout out for Marty as council to mark Ederney
“It has brought great excitement to the village, to young and old.”
Children ‘going hungry’ when asked to isolate
There have been calls for most support for struggling families.
Anger at South’s Covid payments stopping at the border
Local councillors claim those paying tax in the South should be entilted to the Covid payment there.
Up to 75% of ‘normal’ SWAH appointments not going ahead
“This is an extremely challenging position for us across all sites and in terms of how we do our business.”
Young people ‘shouldn’t be made Covid scapegoats’
FERMANAGH’S young people should not be “made the scapegoats” for the spread of Covid locally, and instead should be praised for how well they’ve been handling the crisis. That’s the message of local Cllr Sheamus Greene, who is a school bus driver, in response to criticisms both on social media and on local radio of […]
Border closed to all but essential travel
LAST WEEK it was only Donegal that was off limits for all but essential travel, this week there is nowhere south of the border where Fermanagh people can visit without a valid reason. As numbers continued to grow in the South, just like the North, it was announced on Monday the entire 26 counties were […]
Local man appointed new PSNI commander
FERMANAGH’S new district police commander, who started this week, was one of the key officers in helping co-ordinate the PSNI’s response to the current health crisis. Superintendent Alywin Barton took over from acting District Commander Supt Clive Beatty, pictured below, for the Fermanagh and Omagh district on Monday this week. It was something of a […]
Doctor shortage as SWAH struggles to attract top talent
IT’S PROBABLY the most admired hospital building in the country, yet the state-of-the-art South West Acute Hospital is still struggling to recruit the small number of medical staff it needs to operate properly. The Western Trust has insisted that no services are under threat at SWAH, despite a critical shortage of consultants at the hospital. […]
Positive cases double in a fortnight as hundreds tested
THERE ARE now well over twice the number of positive Covid cases in the local area than there were at the end of the lockdown, with almost as many people testing positive in the last seven days as there were throughout the first four months of the pandemic. However there have been no deaths from […]