Those involved were treated at the scene.
£1.5 million for local broadband ‘not enough’
BROADBAND infrastructure in the Fermanagh and Omagh area is set to get a boost but the £1.5 million funding pledge to improving services has been blasted as ‘nowhere near the investment required.’ £1.5 million funding has been awarded to the Council to deliver full fibre broadband to a number of public sector sites within the district. […]
Hopes high Roslea surgery could be reopened
HOPE is growing GP services could be finally be returning to Roslea. It is now over two years since the village’s surgery shut, leaving the area without a doctor for the first time in 170 years. Since 2017 patients have been forced to make the 35 mile round trip to Lisnaskea to see a GP. […]
Roslea man driving with no seatbelt had no insurance
A ROSLEA man who drove uninsured without a seatbelt has been fined and given penalty points. Jason McMahon (22) of Drumshancorrick Road, Roslea was charged with using a motor vehicle without insurance, failing to wear seatbelt and failing to produce a driving licence. At Enniskillen Magistrates Court on Monday, McMahon pleaded guilty to the three […]
‘New momentum’ in campaign to restore Roslea GP surgery
ROSLEA patients have called for an enquiry into why the village GP surgery was closed almost two years ago. Speaking following a well-attended and heated Pathfinder meeting, held by the Western Trust in Roslea last week, local activist John McCluskey said the campaign for a new surgery in the area had taken on “a new […]
Crucial meeting.. have your say!
Have your say! If you’re interested in the future of your health and social care service, go along to one of the Pathfinder meetings organised by the Western Trust next week at a number of locations around the area. Roslea Community Centre, next Monday, 7pm, Trillick Leisure Centre, Tuesday, 10.30am, Ballinamallard United FC Hall, Tuesday […]
Arrested at Roslea checkpoint
A man who had no insurance, no licence, and no seats in the back of his car has been given a suspended prison sentence after being stopped by police in Roslea. Nathan Cawley (23) of Mullaghmatt, Monaghan appeared at Enniskillen Magistrates Court on Monday having been arrested over the weekend in Roslea. At around 10.45pm […]
Church worries over hard border
CATHOLIC clergy along the Fermanagh border, where parishes span county boundaries, are getting worried about the impact Brexit will have on parochial life. Fr John Chester, Parish Priest in Roslea and Mgr Richard Morgan, Parish Priest in Clones and former prior at Lough Derg, have both expressed their fears for what the UK’s departure from […]
Roslea man in court over ‘vulnerable’ woman
A fifty-two-year-old man has appeared in court accused of breaching a restraining order, by being in the company of a vulnerable woman. William Thomas Birney from Dernawilt Road, Roslea is accused of committing the offence on September 25. He initially appeared before Dungannon Magistrates Court on Friday (September 28) where bail was opposed. A […]
Unsuitable roads blamed for lack of Roslea brown bins
ONE year on from the introduction of the brown bins in Fermanagh, the people of Roslea still have not received theirs due to the ‘unsuitable roads,’ it has been claimed. An angry reader has been in contact to explain that they have been in touch with Fermanagh and Omagh District Council on several occasions, but […]