The 82-year-old’s family have been highlighting their father’s plight.
Fears on future of care homes
AS DRUMCLAY Care Home prepares to close its doors for the final time there have been calls for urgent action to be taken to save the entire nursing home sector in Fermanagh. The Enniskillen care home, which announced in September it would be closing due to a shortage of nurses, will shut on December 12th. […]
Local House Prices Rise Faster Than Rest of the North
HOUSE prices are continuing to climb here in Fermanagh, and even Brexit may do little to slow their steady ascent. According to the Land and Property Services’ report for the third quarter of 2018, the average price of a home in the Fermanagh and Omagh district is currently £124,513. That’s an increase of 1.7 percent […]
Much of Fermanagh to miss out on broadband upgrades
THOSE living in rural Fermanagh are being urged to urgently check if their postcode is included on a list of areas to be upgraded, and to speak up if it’s not. A number of areas with notoriously poor broadband coverage do not appear to be on the Department of Economy’s schedule for a £200 million […]
Roadworks getting top priority across the county
ALL THE major roadworks in the pipeline for the coming years across Fermanagh have been revealed. Last week the Department of Infrastructure’s roads section presented it draft programme of works for 2019 -2021 to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council. On first glance, it’s uplifting reading, with a number of major and much-needed projects and improvements […]
‘Vital’ bridge over Erne may never be restored
A LOCAL bridge used that was blown up by the British Army during the Troubles still hasn’t been properly fixed, and may never be if funding isn’t found, despite being used by hundreds of motorists every week. The Roscor Bridge Road in Belleek currently can’t support heavy loads and is in poor condition overall. The […]
Deal on offer would ensure no hard border
IT’S BEEN a rollercoaster week in the world of Brexit, particularly here in Fermanagh where the everyday consequences of any deal, or no deal, will be felt the strongest. The proposed withdrawal agreement Prime Minister Theresa May revealed to the world last week has generally been welcomed locally. Both Sinn Fein and the SDLP […]
New Sinn Fein candidate is Birmingham mum-of-two
IT MAY not quite be Christmas yet, but in the fast moving world of local politics parties are already making preparations for next year’s district council elections. Sinn Fein this week announced their candidates for two of Fermanagh’s electoral areas, Enniskillen and Erne East, and there’s a new face among them. In the Enniskillen area, […]
£1m to put townland names on road signs
THE COUNCIL are to spend close to £1 million in an effort to preserve townland names on local road signs, just a few years after it brought in controversial changes critics warned would see the old townland names become obsolete. New signs have been popping up across the county in recent months featuring local townland […]