While this week SWAH announced bed closures, our politicians are getting thousands in expenses and insist they are providing a ‘first class service’
Poll claims Fermanagh people don’t want united Ireland
THERE IS less support for a united Ireland in Fermanagh than in any other part of the North, according to a new poll. In fact, the surprising the results of the Irish Times poll show more people in the Fermanagh and Tyrone district are against a unity referendum than in the overall Protestant community in […]
Now Dylan hits the road to get politicians back to work
THE man behind this summer’s campaign to put pressure on our politicians to go back to work is back in action and is walking to Stormont. On January 5th Enniskillen dance instructor Dylan Quinn will embark on a walk from Enniskillen to Parliament buildings in Belfast. So what has spurred on Dylan Quinn’s most recent […]
“Politicians are letting our children down”
‘It is a damning indictment that ‘party politics’ is holding to ransom our whole society.’
MLAs come out fighting in Stormont travel expenses row
TWO Fermanagh MLAs have defended their decision to obtain travel allowances of over £6,000 each solely for travel to Stormont – the highest figures claimed by any Assembly representatives The travel allowance was paid to MLAs for travelling to Stormont between the last election in March 2017 and June 2018 despite the North being without […]
Pay cut ‘won’t be enough to get politicians back to work’
The main man involved in the ‘We Deserve Better’ campaign thinks that the MLA pay cut will make very little difference.
Dylan’s bid to get politician’s back to work goes viral
ENNISKILLEN man Dylan Quinn is leading the charge to get our politicians back to work at Stormont after over 560 days of deadlock. The father-of-four from Enniskillen is using the power of social media to unite people across the North into urging our MLAs to return to the Assembly Chamber. Northern Ireland has been without […]
Crime and money top list of worries for pensioners
At last Friday’s Pensioners Parliament, held at the Westville Hotel, the crowd of just under 100 were surveyed on the issues that most concerned them.
‘Women being put at risk’ because of Stormont stalemate
“Women are dead, we know there’s a problem. What’s the barrier in addressing it? That barrier is that we don’t have a government.”