FERMANAGH families are being left behind in both education and the workplace during the Covid crisis due to the ever increasing “digital divide” in the county. With so many local people working from home, and third level students now getting to grips with remote learning, having decent broadband connection is more important than ever. However, […]
Fears Covid focus may cost lives of cancer patients
CONCERN is growing that Fermanagh patients are missing out on crucial tests that could catch serious diseases before they become life-threatening, due to the Covid backlog. Over recent weeks a number of local GPs have told the Herald they are worried about the growing delays facing patients awaiting diagnostic tests and investigations, after many procedures […]
Students still paying rent despite online lectures
MANY local students are still facing huge accommodation bills for the year ahead, even though classes are going to be all online for the foreseeable future. This academic year has already been a rollercoaster for the county’s school leavers, who not only faced the most disruptive and controversial exam season in living memory due to […]
‘Scandalous lack of support’for schools in Covid crisis
THERE ARE fears some local schools will not be able to afford to keep up with their much-needed social distancing and Covid safety measures due to a lack of funding. When the Herald recently spoke to some Fermanagh schools about how they were coping with their reopening in these challenging times, all were doing OK […]
Boost for Lisnaskea as busy junction set for make over
The junction of the Bank Brae in the town centre has long been a bottle neck in the town, posing problems from pedestrians and motorists alike.
Roads agency doesn’t have enough money to fix roads
Over 10,000 ‘defects’ on local roads, many of them potholes
Only fraction of local Covid tests are positive
Huge increase in Covid tests, but less than 0.8% have the virus
Work gets underway on site for new health centre
THE LONG-AWAITED new health centre in Lisnaskea is finally making progress, however it will be at least another four years before the project is completed. The total cost of the new centre is expected to be between £12 and £14m. With contracts still to be handed out, construction of the new building on the site […]
Archaeologists uncover ancient human remains
A 4,000-YEAR-OLD cremation urn, containing the remains of a Bronze Age person, is one of many “very significant” items recently found in the Erne waterway. As reported in last week’s Herald, a large cache of thousands of Bronze and Stone Age tools were found in a Leitrim lake during the lockdown. This latest discovery was […]