Attending Mass – by ticket only!


AS CHURCHES prepare to reopen for services in the days and weeks ahead safety is their top priority. Indeed, those who are over 70-years-old or have underlying health conditions are being urged to keep using the webcam technology parishes have developed during the lockdown. For example, in the Ederney area, Fr Frank McManus, parish priest […]

Fears Brexit promises ‘may be watered down’


THERE are fears locally the Westminster government is trying “water down” its Brexit commitments to the North and on the border. To read more on this story see this week’s Fermanagh Herald. Can’t get to the shop to collect your copy? No problem! You can download a copy straight to your device by following this […]

Location for new Enniskillen school to be decided


THE HUNT is now on to find a location for a site for a new campus for Fermanagh’s largest primary school. To read more on this story see this week’s Fermanagh Herald. Can’t get to the shop to collect your copy? No problem! You can download a copy straight to your device by following this […]

Long wait is over for born and bred Scouser Kevin


LIVERPOOL’S crowning as Premier League champions at the Etihad stadium tomorrow night could be seen as a bitter sweet occasion, picking up the title after a 30 year wait without a single fan to cheer it on. However, for local supporters here in Fermanagh, they’re just happy to be dominating the league once again. To […]

Radical health plan could restrict public use of A&E


AS the health service ‘resets’ following the peak of the Covid crisis locally, it has been proposed that A&E access should be limited to ambulances only in future. Last week the Western Trust revealed the Emergency Department (ED) at SWAH had been becoming steadily busier in recent times and demand for the service had returned […]

Fears for school bus services when lockdown is lifted


THERE are concerns Fermanagh’s school bus drivers will be put at risk if they are not given adequate protection when children begin returning to the classrooms. At the moment, the plan is for some pupils to start returning to school from August 24 onwards, with all pupils expected to be back in class by September. […]

Union rep warns against post-Covid cuts to NHS


THE PUBLIC have been urged to be vigilant against any potential cuts to the local health service as it emerges out of the Covid surge. In recent weeks both the Department of Health and the Western Trust have announced their plans for resetting and rebuilding services. Jill Weir, who is a health campaigner and chairwoman […]

Positives may yet come out of the pandemic


THERE is no doubt Fermanagh’s the Covid crisis has been a tragedy, with local lives lost and the county’s economy left in tatters. However, believe it our not, the pandemic may actually lead to some positive and much needed changes in the county. In fact, with the transformation across the whole of society in recent […]

Lockdown forces Lourdes pilgrimage to go online


  IT’S BEEN an annual feature of life in the diocese for the past 50 years, and now for the first time ever the summer pilgrimage to Lourdes is going virtual.   The Clogher Diocesan Pilgrimage to the French holy site had to be canclled this year due to the Covid pandemic, however the diocese […]