THE Fermanagh and Omagh District Council recently facilitated a demonstration of a JCB Pothole Pro machine which is capable of repairing holes on the roads in ‘eight minutes’. In conjunction with the Department for Infrastructure Roads, which is responsible for roads maintenance, the dealer, Dennison JCB, demonstrated the JCB Pothole Pro machine on the roads […]
Hundreds in Fermanagh receive pothole payouts
OVER 900 local people successfully claimed for road defect damage to their vehicles in the last five years, with hundreds of thousands paid out in recent years. Local man Mark Ovens, who is running in the upcoming Council elections in place of his outgoing UUP colleague Cllr Alex Baird, has obtained figures showing that since […]
Pothole JCB could help fast repair of Fermanagh roads
Potholes have been the bane of many a motorist’s life – and Fermanagh is no different.
Donagh plagued by potholes
The Herald has been contacted by local residents recently regarding the state of the roads in the village.
Roads Service outline programme of works
THE schedule for road works across Fermanagh for the next two years has been published by the Department for Infrastructure’s (DfI) Roads Service, and there are plenty of long awaited projects on the way. In a report recently delivered to the local Council, acting divisional roads manager Harry Gallagher said there would be a great emphasis on […]
Call for urgent action to repair local beauty spot
Calls for Council and the Forestry Service to work together to repair the approach to the stunning Jenkin Lake.
Potholes still causing deep concern on county’s roads
49 resurfacing schemes carried out, but 1,339 road defects are still waiting on repair.
District has highest number of outstanding road repairs
THE local council has heard how the Fermanagh and Omagh district has the highest number of outstanding road repairs, with 1339 surface defects. Following a debate when Cllr Barry McElduff was critical of the response from government to complaints about the poor conditions of our roads, the Council unanimously agreed to write to the Mnister […]
Roads agency doesn’t have enough money to fix roads
Over 10,000 ‘defects’ on local roads, many of them potholes
Wheely bad… fears pothole problems are set to deepen
ONE OF the biggest challenges facing the new Assembly will be filling in the many, many potholes across Fermanagh. Exactly ten years ago this week the Herald ran a six-page pothole special, highlighting surface problems around the county. The spread is shocking to us today in that the potholes it featured no longer seem that […]