THOUSANDS of homes across Fermanagh endured power cuts over the weekend as Storm Darragh swept through the county. The storm began on Friday with a yellow weather warning for wind and rain, escalating to an amber warning early on Saturday. Winds of nearly 70mph left approximately 9,400 homes in Fermanagh without electricity, joining 95,000 NIE […]
Fermanagh Pensioner struggling to heat rooms
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 public services hit by global IT outage
FERMANAGH’S health system and other public services were impacted by last weekend’s global IT outage, which saw widespread disruption right across the world. Believed to be one of the worst IT failures of all time, the problem was caused by a faulty update by cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, which affected Microsoft Windows systems and impacted businesses, banks, airlines and […]