Distillery switches gin making to help fight virus


GIN DISTILLERIES across the world have been shifting production to play their part in the global fight against Covid-19, and here in the county it is no different. Fermanagh’s own Boatyard Distillery has been playing its part, moving to making much needed alcohol-based hand sanitiser, which they have been distributing to those in the local […]

Health

Enniskillen is to be site of new ‘Covid-19’ centre


A SPECIALIST ‘Covid centre’ is being set up in Fermanagh to help the health service manage the large numbers of virus patients who expected to need treatment here, the Herald can reveal.  To help our GP surgeries and hospitals cope with the anticipated influx of ill patients, work is underway to rapidly set up the […]

‘All we have now is the stuff that matters’


AS the coronavirus takes grip across the country one of Fermanagh’s best known clerics has admitted he is missing home in this ‘strange and difficult time’. Passionist priest Fr Brian D’Arcy, former rector of the Graan,  and who is now based in Crossgar, Co Down, admitted this week that it is a tough time for […]

Fermanagh puts best foot forward in the face of crisis


IT’S BEEN a very long time since the county has faced a crisis on the scale of the current Covid-19 epidemic, but in the true spirit of Fermanagh the community has risen to the occasion.  We are living in deeply unsettling times, when many are worried for their health and others are worried for their […]

Former nurses stepping up to play their part


LOCAL nurses who have left the profession, whether for retirement or to take up new jobs, are currently re-registering so they can play their part in combating the coronavirus.  Across the country and the world former medical workers are stepping up and getting ready to return to the frontline to help in the battle against […]