FIVEMILETOWN College has been named the leading non-selective secondary school in the North. This is based on GCSE data of percentage of year 12 students achieving at least 5A* – C grades including English and Maths. Open Data NI annual school examination statistics reveal that 96.9 per cent of Year 12 Fivemiletown College students achieved […]
People power helps to save St Mary’s PS
AFTER a long, hard-fought campaign, the community in Fivemiletown is celebrating a very happy New Year with the news it has saved St Mary’s Primary School from closure. Having spent 2023 protesting and fighting for the school’s survival, it has been confirmed the community-led campaign has been successful and people power has prevailed, with the proposal to shut St Mary’s now […]
Police appeal following two burglaries
The incidents took place in Fintona and Fivemiletown yesterday.
‘Conflict of interest’ concern over St Mary’s closure
THERE have been renewed calls for the proposal to close St Mary’s Primary School in Fivemiletown to be withdrawn after it emerged one of the key officials to vote for the closure had an alleged conflict of interest. In January this year both the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) and the Education Authority (EA) earmarked […]
St Mary’s PS fights back against closure
“We will also be welcoming a new intake of children to Primary 1, as our school continues to go from strength to strength.”
St Mary’s supporters’ agonising wait on school future
“If St Mary’s was unable to achieve the very best for our children, we wouldn’t be fighting so passionately for its retention.”
Man who died in crash had just buried grandmother
THE MAN killed following a traffic crash near Fivemiletown early on Tuesday morning had buried his grandmother the day before. Liam Mulligan, aged 28, and from the Fivemiletown area, died following a one vehicle road traffic collision on the Belfast Road. He had buried his grandmother Margaret Green, the previous day in Brookeborough. The single […]
Community ‘steps out’ for St Mary’s Primary School
HUNDREDS took to the streets of Fivemiletown over the weekend in a show of support for St Mary’s Primary School in Fivemiletown. Parents, pupils, politicians, clergy and many members of the wider community made up the 500-strong crowd that “stepped out” on Saturday morning and walked from St Mary’s Church to the much-loved school, which has been slated for closure […]
WATCH: Huge crowd takes to the streets for St Mary’s
A huge crowd took to the streets of Fivemiletown this morning calling for the school to remain open.