Over £6,000 each… despite Stormont closed three years
Stormont campaigner steps up ‘back to work’ campaign
It is hoped that a peoples assembly will be held in Enniskillen next Thursday.
‘Out-of-work’ MLAs ‘can’t justify travel expenses’
FERMANAGH’S MLAs must show exactly what they are doing to help the county and exactly what value local people are getting for the money they are paying them. That’s the view of former Stormont official and local debt advisor Kevin Lawrenson, who said people had been outraged by news the five Fermanagh South Tyrone MLAs […]
Our out-of-work MLAs claim £300k expenses
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.