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Remembering Bobby Sands election win

IT HAS BEEN 40 years since Bobby Sands was elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, while on hunger strike in the H-blocks of Long Kesh back 1981. Friday past marked the watershed moment that saw Bobby Sands defeat Ulster Unionist leader Harry West after he received 30,492 votes and topped the poll with a 1,447 majority from […]

Big rise in support for ‘middle ground’ parties

WHILE Fermanagh has long been a battleground between “green and orange”, one of the candidates in this year’s Westminster election has noted a slow move away from the tribalism of the past. Cllr Adam Gannon was speaking after he overseen one of the biggest jump in the vote for the SDLP in Fermanagh South Tyrone […]

Fermanagh Labour man threatens party with legal action

Mr Harris, the vice-chair of Labour NI, has given the party’s National Executive Committee until June 2 to respond.

Shock at burning of general election posters

It’s believed the incident occurred in the early hours of this morning.

VIDEO: Elliott prepares for “unpredictable” election

“People must realise Brexit is going to happen,” said the outgoing MP.

Foster under fire over ‘special treatment’

Chairman of the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Mary Garrity, acted to have Ms Foster removed from the room.

Political discontent over proposed boundary changes

Politicians up in arms amid proposals over parliamentary constituency changes

Gildernew dismisses Unionist rival as a ‘dinosaur’

MICHELLE Gildernew has labelled agreed unionist candidate Tom Elliott a “dinosaur” and “desperate” following comments he made during an unionist rally in which he accused the Sinn Fein MP of doing nothing for Fermanagh. The UUP candidate was speaking at the rally in Kesh which was attended by DUP Minster, Arlene Foster and chaired by […]