Kettyle’s beef is always a cut above the rest


WHEN you’re supplying beef and meat on a weekly basis to the likes of famous chefs Gordon Ramsey and Michael Deane, you know you must be doing something right. Since 2004, Kettyle Irish Foods, established by Lisnaskea farmer Maurice Kettyle, has become a leading force in the supplying of high-end beef to some of the top […]

Night to remember at 140th anniversary of Mahon’s Hotel


A NIGHT of stories, sketches, and colourful tales was just part of the entertainment last Thursday night when Mahon’s Hotel in Irvinestown celebrated 140 years in business. Few businesses can proudly claim to have been run by the same family on a daily basis for almost a century-and-a-half, but this was exactly what Mahon’s Hotel in Irvinestown was celebrating, with […]

Kind-hearted Bernadette ‘cared about everyone’


A TRILLICK native who died recently has been described as someone who ‘always put other people first.’ Bernadette McArt, died peacefully at her home on Friday, November 17. She was the sister of former Trillick footballer and Fermanagh and Omagh District Council worker, Gerry ‘Shep’ Donnelly, who died last month. Another sister, Kathleen O’Hagan, also passed […]

Huge turnout at Sports Hall Athletics Championships


OVER 200 athletes took part in the well-attended and hugely popular Fermanagh Secondary Schools Sports Hall Athletics Championships at the Lakeland Forum on Friday. The event was organised by Nicola Canavan from St Fanchea’s College and the BTEC Sport students at the school organised and officiated at the athletics extravaganza. To read more on this story […]

David vrooms across Himalayas for charity


A PEAK performance in the mountain’s by Enniskillen’s own motorcycle man, David Donaldson, has seen a phenomenal £29,000 raised for charity. David, who owns local business LE Graphics, has just completed a mammoth bike ride from Kathmandu in Nepal to Mount Everest base camp in Tibet. “I suppose the highlight was getting to Everest base camp […]

Local home heating oil prices set to rise


THE price of home heating oil has fallen for the fifth consecutive week in the North, but that’s where the good news ends. New analysis from the weekly survey from consumer watchdog, the Consumer Council, found that the price of home heating oil has steadily fallen since October 19, when 500 litres was priced at around £390. […]

Ted shares lung cancer journey to help others


IT’S one of the scariest diagnoses a patient can get, but with the right support, proper awareness, and ever-advancing treatments, lung cancer doesn’t have to be a life sentence, even at its later stages. That’s the message from Derrylin man Ted O’Driscoll who has been living with Stage 3 lung cancer for over six years now. He has called for a […]