A FERMANAGH pensioner who has lost their Winter Fuel Payment fears she may have to “go cap in hand to a charity” and ask for help after she’s only able to heat two rooms in her home. An estimated 249,000 pensioners in the North, who are not in receipt of pension credit or other means-tested benefits, […]
Fermanagh pensioner feels he is being ‘left to die’
A LOCAL pensioner has told the Herald he feels like he is being “left to die” on his own, due to long delays in getting the help he desperately needs. He also feels those responsible for providing the care he needs “don’t care” that he is struggling so much on his own. David Mace is […]
Pensioner robbed while attending funeral
THOUSANDS WERE STOLEN from a vulnerable Ederney woman as she attended a funeral, in yet another theft in rural Fermanagh. Between 10.30am and 2pm on July 7, sterling cash, euros and US dollars were taken, most in 50 note denominations and a couple of hundred dollar bills, from a house on the Castlederg Road in […]