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 […]

‘Fermanagh has awakened’ – Fr Brian


“WE as a people in Fermanagh have woken up to the fact we are not being treated fairly, we’re not being treated with respect. In fact, we’re not being treated at all.” Those were the words of Fr Brian D’Arcy this week, as the consultation on the future of emergency general surgery at the SWAH […]

‘Yes we can!’ – Fermanagh has its say on SWAH


A SIGNIFICANT proportion of the population of Fermanagh has now added its voice to the campaign to save services at the South West Acute Hospital. With the Western Trust consultation on the future of emergency general surgery at the Enniskillen hospital coming to an end this week – on April 10th – in recent weeks the dedicated […]

Belleek man at the heart of making history


ON THE 25th anniversary of its signing, the Fermanagh man who was at the heart of the talks leading to the Good Friday Agreement has called for today’s political leaders to follow the example of those who worked so hard to achieve peace. Having been appointed a talks delegate by John Hume in the late […]

Good Friday Agreement ‘not set in stone’ – Gallagher


ONE of the key players in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement has called for it to be reformed and adapted to our current political landscape, and has called on today’s elected representatives to show the same strength of leadership seen 25 years ago. Belleek man Tommy Gallagher was right at the heart of […]