‘IT’S absolutely ludicrous’ is how Erne hurling manager Joe Baldwin reacted to the proposal by the GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to potentially exclude Fermanagh from the Allianz Hurling League and top-tier competitions from 2025. Next month, CCCC delegates from across the country will meet to vote on whether counties with less than five adult hurling […]
Local protesters show support for Palestine
FERMANAGH people joined thousands that gathered at rallies in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast at the weekend to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pro-Palestine campaigner, John Hurson, and former local Independent Councillor, Eamon Keenan, were the speakers at the Palestine solidarity protest at the Diamond in Enniskillen on Saturday. “In the year 2023, we are watching a […]
Jessica-Elise is representing Fermanagh at Stormont
A BUDDING MLA for the future has encouraged Fermanagh’s young people to get involved in the Northern Ireland Youth Assembly. Jessica-Elise McArdle, 16, who is from Irvinestown and attends Omagh Academy, has spent the last two years representing the youth of Fermanagh & South Tyrone at Stormont. Applications are open to become an NI Youth […]
Election results – Fermanagh counting complete
It’s been Sinn Fein’s day again here at the Omagh count centre, with the party securing a historic three seats in Erne West, and two in Erne North.
Counting complete in two Fermanagh wards
We’ll be back in the morning for all the results from the remaining DEAs, Erne West, Erne North and Omagh.
Plenty new Fermanagh faces on the election ballot
There nominations have not thrown up any great surprises, with all the main parties putting forward a similar number of candidates as 2019.
MLAs’ pay to be cut as election pushed back
It is also exepected fresh elections will be pushed back.
Questions remain despite convictions
WHILE two soldiers were eventually convicted and jailed for the murders of Michael Naan and Andrew Murray, for the families left behind many questions remain as to how and why their loved ones met such a horrific death. For James Naan, 50 years on, he still struggles to come to terms with what happened to […]
DUP urged to ‘stop putting people’s health at risk’
“If you’re sick, you want to be treated and you don’t care what political situation is going on.”
Arlene Foster to form pro-union lobby group
“I haven’t gone away in terms of advocating for the Union.”