EXCITEMENT is building in Donagh and throughout the county as some of Fermanagh’s top music stars and Country talents are set to unite and collaborate for a special festive gig. All-Ireland Fleadh champion Patrick Treacy is set to headline the ‘Christmas Hooley’ which is expected to be a sell-out, when it hits the St Patrick’s […]
Strike ballot to be held at Fermanagh factory
Workers at timber giant Balcas, outside Enniskillen, are to vote on whether to take strike action over pay.
Local trade unionist takes to airwaves
A NEW book celebrating 100 years of the Enniskillen Unite Branch has been highlighted in a popular local BBC radio show, Your Place and Mine. Broadcast on Saturday mornings on BBC Radio Ulster and presented by Anne Marie McAleese, the programme celebrates the people, places and stories that make Northern Ireland unique. Former local trade union leader, Jim Quinn, […]
Disruption for schools as strike action starts today
The industrial action will begin today, Thursday, June 15 and will end on Friday, June 23.
Unions unite in opposition to SWAH cuts
“We are confident that a united community can defeat yet another attempt by bureaucrats to undermine our hospital and National Health Service.”
Fermanagh local authority workers take to picket lines
The strike started on Tuesday, April 26 and will last until Sunday, May 1 and again from Tuesday, May 3 until Sunday, May 8.
Unite Union members begin strike action in Fermanagh
“As a working class councillor I’m here to stand in solidarity with the council workers and the front line workers.”
“We’re last in line for vital protection”
“It really does feel that we are always the very last to be thought about and totally forgotten in the chain of care and nursing.”
Fears rural school buses may be facing new cutbacks
‘A child of five could be expected to walk further than two miles to school in the morning and two home’