LOCAL MLA Phil Flanagan has come under fire for suggesting that sectarian motives influenced roadworks carried out by Transport NI in Kesh and Clabby this year.
Flooding defences ‘not enough’, says MLA
TRANSPORT NI must find a comprehensive solution to solve the flooding problem in Boho once and for all.
Mystery surrounds gay bakery poster
THE CHRISTIAN-run bakery at the centre of the ‘gay cake’ row has received backing from a Fermanagh firm after a banner was erected outside the business pledging support for the bakery.
A WEEK IN NEWS: 5 stories you may have missed
Here are five news stories from Fermanagh that you may have missed this week:
Ghost estates ‘solution to shortage of social housing’
AS 1,800 homes lie empty across Fermanagh today, up to 770 families still remain on the waiting list for social housing, plunging the county into what one MLA described as a “housing crisis”.
Photoshop Phil makes sure he gets in on the act!
A FERMANAGH Assembly member has accused a government department of excluding Catholics from a shared sports facility in Maguiresbridge after claiming no one from a nationalist background was invited to the launch of a multi-million pound project.
Council chairman’s New Year Resolution: Put gay marriage to rest
A GAY rights activist has slammed a Fermanagh DUP councillor after he “hoped” 2015 would bring an end to gay marriage campaigns because, “it’s between a man and a woman”.
Sinn Fein blasts proposals for another war memorial
THE LOCAL historian behind the proposed erection of a memorial to Fermanagh-born war recipients of the military award, Victoria’s Cross, has defended it in the wake of criticism from a local MLA.
Fears that land will be sold off to the highest bidder
SOCIAL HOUSING plans at the Grosvenor Barracks site in Enniskillen have been given a ‘vote of confidence’ – despite its transfer from the Department of Social Development to the new Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.
‘We deserve better’ – Flanagan
A local MLA has described the level of fuel poverty in the North as, ‘shocking’.