Residents’ fears for Fermanagh accident blackspot


RESIDENTS have raised fears that it’s “only a matter of time” before someone is killed on a busy local road that is not being gritted. Over the past few weeks there have been several accidents on the Druminiskill Road near Florencecourt on frosty or icy mornings. One local woman told the ‘Herald they had encountered two bad […]


Fears bird flu could mutate to humans


IT’S an annual disruption for local bird owners every winter, but now news coming from across the ‘Pond’ has raised concerns that avian flu could become a worry for all of us. With the H5N1 virus recently detected in a wild goose near Dungannon, poultry farmers and flock owners in Fermanagh are currently on high alert […]


Green light for hundreds of new houses in Fermanagh


A MAJOR new housing development in a Fermanagh village, that could see its population swell by 50-per-cent, has been given the green light by planners. Meanwhile, in a separate development, 120 more houses have also been given the go ahead in the county for the county town. At the January meeting of the Council’s planning […]


Vital health team in urgent appeal for breast milk donations


IT HELPS hundreds of babies across Ireland each year, and now the Human Milk Bank at the South West Acute Hospital has issued a fresh appeal for donor mums to help it continue its life-saving work. The only one of its kind on the island of Ireland, the team at the facility, which provides breast […]


Enniskillen human milk bank seeks new donors


IT HELPS hundreds of babies across Ireland each year, and now the SWAH-based Human Milk Bank has issued a fresh appeal for donor mums to help it continue it’s life-saving work. The only one of its kind on the island of Ireland, the team at the Western Trust run facility, which provides breast milk to neonatal […]