Tyrone 0-17 Fermanagh 1-7 By Pauric McGurn Fermanagh’s McKenna Cup campaign started with a defeat to neighbours Tyrone at O’Neill’s Healy Park, Omagh, on Wednesday (yesterday) evening. Fermanagh only had four starters from last year’s opening McKenna Cup game with Monaghan but it was only Diarmaid King who was making his Fermanagh debut for Kieran Donnelly’s charges. […]
Consistency is key focus for Donnelly
Tonight Kieran Donnelly’s Fermanagh kickstart their year with an away trip to O’Neills Healy Park to take on Tyrone.
Little rest for Fermanagh footballers over Christmas
AS many of us turn our attention to Christmas festivities, Kieran Donnelly and Fermanagh footballers have one eye on the Dr McKenna Cup which gets underway in January. The draw last week saw the Erne men pitted with Tyrone and Derry in Group B and Donnelly is relishing playing two of the best teams in Ulster; […]
Book of Condolence opened in memory of tragic hurler
“Damian Casey was a supremely talented hurler who was highly regarded within and far beyond County Tyrone.”
Local rivalries put aside to cheer on Tyrone’s new footballing heroes
COUNTY rivalries and neighbourly banter aside, there were celebrations across Fermanagh at the weekend as the Tyrone team lifted the Sam Maguire cup for a fourth time. While there may have been one or two remaining begrudgers, the joyous scenes as the newly crowned All Ireland champions arrived to a deservedly triumphant welcome at Healy […]
The Fermanagh children cheering on Tyrone!
Mr Sludden will be swapping the classroom for Croke Park this weekend.
Millions more granted for cross-border canal project
FINANCE: AN ADDITIONAL €6 million has been announced for the Ulster Canal cross-border restoration project on Lough Erne. This brings to €12 million, the total of financial support provided by each of the governments north and south of the border on this stage of the project. The project will continue work that began 180 years […]
Just two positive Covid cases in Fermanagh last week
There were no cases in two local postcode areas in the past week.
Tributes for popular social worker who died from Covid
“A GREAT void” has been left in the Western Trust by the passing of popular social worker Nuala McLaughlin, who died from Covid-19 just days before Christmas. Although she was from Tyrone, Nuala (nee McAnenly) was a well known face in Fermanagh and news of her untimely death from the virus has shocked the local community, with […]
SWAH says farewell to long serving midwife
AFTER 36 years delivering countless local babies, some of whom may now even be reading this article, midwife Rosemary Lynch is preparing to say a fond farewell to her colleagues at SWAH. Having started out at the Tyrone County Hospital at 21-years-old, Rosemary has been caring for local babies and mothers here in Fermanagh […]