Covid is linked to decline in local crossborder trade


TRAFFIC on some of Fermanagh’s border roads has fallen by over 40 percent since the current round of Covid restrictions came into force.  With tighter restrictions on both sides of the border, traffic counters in Donegal have revealed a dramatic drop of thousands of vehicles using roads along the border since the Level Five lockdown […]

New restrictions pose headache for crossborder workers


COUNCILLORS on both sides of the border have called for an “All-Ireland approach” with regards to Covid restrictions. On Monday night, Cabinet Ministers in the South agreed to put the country into highest alert level five from today (Wednesday) for six weeks.  Despite this, further lockdown restrictions imposed by Stormont last Friday do not amount […]

Border closed to all but essential travel


LAST WEEK it was only Donegal that was off limits for all but essential travel, this week there is nowhere south of the border where Fermanagh people can visit without a valid reason. As numbers continued to grow in the South, just like the North, it was announced on Monday the entire 26 counties were […]

Garda checkpoints go up as Donegal goes into lockdown


WITHIN hours of the Donegal being ‘locked down’ again at the weekend, Garda checkpoints went up at various crossings from Fermanagh into the county.  After it was announced Donegal was to be moved to Level 3 of the south’s Covid restrictions system last Thursday night, An Garda Siochana announced on Friday it was resuming ‘Operation […]

Crack garda unit to stay on Fermanagh border


THE ARMED response that was deployed temporarily along the Fermanagh border last year is to be  expanded and made permanent.  Last September Garda Commissioner Drew Harris announced the an armed support unit (ASU) was to begin patrolling the border in Cavan and Monaghan. The unit was made up of up to 20 gardai from other […]

Extension of ban ‘body blow for the rural pub’


RURAL pubs across the county are preparing for another “body blow” as growing suspicion mounts as to whether or not Stormont will give the green light for wet-only pubs to reopen next Monday. Publicans remain dubious after Stormont’s “quick change of plan” for pubs to reopen back in July had been swayed after the South […]

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Public urged to stay on this side of border


 THERE has been uproar in Fermanagh’s border counties after it was revealed a loophole means day trippers from the North cannot be fined or arrested for breaching social distancing rules in the South. An Garda Siochana are continuing to carry out checkpoints along the border as part of Operation Fanacht, and will turn back northern […]