The former owner of the Quinn Group, Sean Quinn, has responded to a challenge by its new owners, Aventas Group, to condemn yesterday’s arson attack on a bus parked at the entrance to three of its manufacturing units near Ballyconnell.
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‘The whole building could have gone up in a fireball’
THE owner of the £10,000 fuel tanker carrying 1,500 litres of fuel that was stolen and then used in an arson attack on the Derrylin head offices of the former Quinn Group, has hit out at the disregard shown by those involved to local businesses.
Group claims workers want Quinn back on board
It has been claimed that workers at the Quinn Group, now renamed, the Avantas Group, have renewed their calls for Sean Quinn and his management team to be reinstated.
Attack on former Quinn premises
Police in Fermanagh are investigating an incident at the former Quinn premises in the Ballyconnell Road area of Derrylin on the evening of Wednesday December 11.
Woman who came face to face with apartheid mourns loss of Madiba
A familiar figure in Lisnaskea, Carol Jordaann, the partner of local Sinn Fein MLA, Sean Lynch, recalled this week how she joined the African National Congress at the age of 13 to protest against white supremacy rule in her native South Africa.
Fears of tax office job losses
ANY loss of jobs at the HM Revenue and Customs Office (HMRC) in Enniskillen would be ‘disastrous’ for local people and could be the ‘start of a slippery slope to further reductions’.
War on scandal of ‘slave wages’
A LOCAL councillor has waged war on Fermanagh businesses that she says are underpaying staff.
Emigration taking its toll on GAA clubs across county
FERMANAGH’S GAA heads are becoming seriously concerned at the never-ending exodus of club players, mainly to Australia.
Kettyle meats now in 22 Tesco stores
An award-winning meats manufacturer based in Lisnaskea is now retailing its range of products in 22 of Northern Ireland’s 38 Tesco stores.
Young jobless figures treble
Fermanagh’s youth unemployment has almost trebled in the past six years, with figures just released by the Department of Finance showing a deepening crisis for the county’s under-25s.