AFTER a long, hard-fought campaign, the community in Fivemiletown is celebrating a very happy New Year with the news it has saved St Mary’s Primary School from closure. Having spent 2023 protesting and fighting for the school’s survival, it has been confirmed the community-led campaign has been successful and people power has prevailed, with the proposal to shut St Mary’s now […]
‘After an hour it was like we were never away’
MONDAY marked an occasion that many of our young people and their families never thought would happen when lockdown was announced back in March. The unprecedented closure of schools right across Fermanagh left households in depths of fear and uncertainty as to what the future would hold. Despite this, over five months later it would […]
Irvinestown Primary is to benefit from new investment
Irvinestown Primary School is to benefit from new government investment. The announcement came on Tuesday, just days after the restoration of devolved government. The school is one of 12 primary schools five post-primary schools and one special school set to benefit from an estimated capital investment of £45 million. Capital schemes across the North are […]
Calls for gritting at primary schools after lorries crash on diversion route
A ROAD CRASH involving two lorries on a rural road in Arney which was being used by traffic diverted from the main Dublin road was ‘no coincidence’, according to one local councillor.
Local school children ‘will lose out’ in the latest round of cuts
PRIMARY School principals across Fermanagh have expressed their concern after learning school budgets could be slashed next year after reading about it in this paper.