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 […]
Ageing health centre now ‘leaking like a sieve’
DESPITE the current centre “leaking like a sieve” and being “unfit for purpose”, a new health centre for Lisnaskea remains at least three years away. However, progress is being made on the project. The problems with the current Maple Health Centre in the town were raised again at Stormont this week, when local MLA Sean […]
Funfair family insist safety is top priority
THE LOCAL family behind Cullen’s Amusements has assured the Fermanagh public it is going above and beyond with their Covid safety measures. A regular feature of Enniskillen summers for many a year, the family-run funfair rolled into town last week for the first time since the coronavirus crisis began. For some the sight of the […]
Hospital ramps up restrictions due to new fears
With the continuing increase in the number of local Covid cases, the Western Trust has tightened its visiting restrictions once again.
Garda checkpoints go up as Donegal goes into lockdown
WITHIN hours of the Donegal being ‘locked down’ again at the weekend, Garda checkpoints went up at various crossings from Fermanagh into the county. After it was announced Donegal was to be moved to Level 3 of the south’s Covid restrictions system last Thursday night, An Garda Siochana announced on Friday it was resuming ‘Operation […]
Work on ‘Third World’ road to Dublin could take 2 years
Anyone living in the south west of the county, and anyone who regularly travels to Cavan or Dublin, will be acutely aware of the issues on this busy stretch of road. In the past the road has been described as “a third world carriageway”, where decades-overdue widening and resurfacing works have been taking place on […]
Crack garda unit to stay on Fermanagh border
THE ARMED response that was deployed temporarily along the Fermanagh border last year is to be expanded and made permanent. Last September Garda Commissioner Drew Harris announced the an armed support unit (ASU) was to begin patrolling the border in Cavan and Monaghan. The unit was made up of up to 20 gardai from other […]