Driver miraculously escapes injury after horrific crash


POLICE in Fermanagh have issued a stark warning to drivers no to get behind the wheel after taking drink following a horrific crash in the county last weekend.  The PSNI shared photographs of Saturday night’s crash, seen here, on Sunday morning to highlight the dangers of drink driving. They did not state where the collision […]


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Driver found hiding in bushes after fleeing police


A MAN fled police, after almost crashing into them, then got out of his car, ran away and hid in a gorse bush, a court has heard.  William Smyth (24) of Marnaharn, Rockcorry appeared at Enniskillen Magistrates Court on Monday where he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, having no insurance, having no licence, failing to […]


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Garda call for PSNI ’copter to help fight crime


DONEGAL gardai have called for PSNI helicopters to be allowed to cross the Fermanagh/Donegal border to tackle the “plague” of dangerous driving and cross-border crime. Earlier this month Brendan O’Connor from the Donegal Garda Representative Association (GRA), pointing out Donegal was isolated from the gardai’s own air support in Dublin, called on the PSNI chopper […]


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PSNI team up with Garda to mount checkpoints


THERE HAS been a worrying spike in the number of rural crimes in recent week, especially along the border.  From the theft of irreplaceable church records at Derrylin, residents being threatened in their homes in Kesh, tools being stolen from a van parked in an Enniskillen town centre carpark or to burglaries in Bellanaleck. As […]