THE FERMANAGH Family Support Hub has marked its 10th anniversary helping the youth of the county. Since opening in 2013, the local sign-posting service by Action for Children Early Intervention Hub has helped almost 4,000 children and young people, and over 3,200 families, and has created a strong network of community, voluntary and statutory providers over the […]
Sean Lynch on the prison talks that finally led to GFA
AS ONE of the republican leaders in Long Kesh in the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement, former Fermanagh MLA Sean Lynch was at the heart of the prison negotiations that helped secure the historic agreement. This week, as the world paused to mark 25 years from that fateful day at Castle Buildings, the […]
Fermanagh’s health care heroes honoured
FERMANAGH’S healthcare heroes were honoured by the Western Trust at a special ceremony in Omagh last week. Over 200 staff and guests gathered at the Silver Birch Hotel on April 4th for the Trust’s Special Recognition Awards. Scores of local staff were recognised across nine categories, which celebrated the care, innovation, leadership, and excellent services delivered by the […]
‘What does Belfast have that Fermanagh doesn’t have?’
“We’re known for our friendliness, we’re laid back, and it’s quiet, but you’ve still got all the utilities that you want.”
St Comhghall’s class of ’83 set for night of nostalgia
Any money raised by the reunion will be donated to the Ray of Hope memorial weekend, which was set up in honour of Mickey McPhillips.
New homes planned across Fermanagh
THERE is good news on the housing front this week, with hundreds of new homes being given the green light by planners. With demand for family homes remaining high in Fermanagh, and stock relatively low, many looking to get on the property market will welcome the news that plans for three major new developments in Enniskillen, […]
Hundreds in Fermanagh receive pothole payouts
OVER 900 local people successfully claimed for road defect damage to their vehicles in the last five years, with hundreds of thousands paid out in recent years. Local man Mark Ovens, who is running in the upcoming Council elections in place of his outgoing UUP colleague Cllr Alex Baird, has obtained figures showing that since […]
MI6 smear campaign against Fr McManus
IN THE week where a former MI5 agent has spoken out about how he defied orders by meeting with the IRA during the ‘90s to help broker peace, a somewhat less positive story has emerged of how MI6 had directed a campaign against a Fermanagh priest two decades earlier. Writing in the Irish Echo last […]
Increase in number of local ‘sextortion’ scams
THERE has been a rise in the number of local people reporting romance, or ‘sextortion’, scams. Last year hundreds of cases of these scams were reported across the North, and now the PSNI has warned more and more people in the Fermanagh area are being targeted by the fraudsters. Sextortion and romance scams usually involve someone […]
Mannok leading the way in green revolution
FERMANAGH construction giant Mannok has taken its first step on the journey to net zero, by launching a ground-breaking, first-in-the-world new technology that has the potential to revolutionise the cement industry across the globe. Working with Danish multinational technology company FLSmidth, last week Mannok announced the successful implementation of the new FUELFLEX Pyrolyzer combustion system, which has […]