RESIDENTS of a housing development in Garrison could be left without any sewage treatment works if power is imminently disconnected from the sewage treatment plant on the site, as the plant’s electricity bills haven’t been paid in almost a year.

A NINE-YEAR-OLD boy who has only one kidney – which was working at just 17 per cent – has found a donor.

AN 18-YEAR-OLD Enniskillen woman is well on the pathway to recovery following her diagnosis with an autoimmune condition last Summer.

ON VALENTINE’S Day, 1981, 48 people lost their lives in the fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin – a night that Stardust survivor Gerry Murphy, from Enniskillen, says will stay with him forever.

THE family of the late Graham Cowan have paid tribute to the kind-hearted farmer who always looked on the bright side of life.

WITH many places in Northern Ireland seeing a rise in tensions over Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol, the PSNI Fermanagh and Omagh District Commander, Alwyn Barton, says there is some some tension locally.

JUST over a year ago, Fermanagh footballer Lee Cullen and his girlfriend, Gemma McLaughlin, headed off to the other side of the world to see what Australia had to offer.

THE Chief Executive of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council expects to be “held to account” by members in the event of future project shortfalls.

A PROPOSAL for a zero per cent rates increase for the coming financial year didn’t make it to a vote in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council chamber, despite being formally seconded, after the Chief Executive declared it “incompetent”, from...

THE MV Kestrel of Belfast was a familiar sight on the waters around Enniskillen and Lower Lough Erne during the Summer months as it ran tours of the island town and Devenish Island.

With Boris Johnson putting down on paper what the road to normality in England looks like, members of the business community in Fermanagh feel this would be a sensible approach here, if the circumstances allow.

A WOMAN whose mother survived the sinking of the R.M.S. Titantic was laid to rest on Saturday.

THE latest figures published by NISRA recently showing that alcohol-specific deaths in 2019 were the highest on record in Northern Ireland (NI) is part of a “worrying” upward trajectory.

THROUGHOUT the pandemic, a team from Enniskillen Methodist Church has been putting “love in action”, helping members of the church community and beyond with a number of innovative projects.

The Stork Fountain in the middle of Copenhagen in Denmark, which depicts three storks about to fly off, has been a famous landmark in the city since 1894 where tourists and locals alike gather around it as a meeting place.

Police in Fermanagh have issued an appeal for a missing man who was last seen in Enniskillen.

Talented footballer, Micheal Glynn has signed with Derry City and is expected to be in their squad for the club's upcoming pre-season friendly.

FOR the second Summer in a row, students, teachers and parents face the incredible stress of Covid-dominated external assessments.

THE son of a former Royal Irish Fusilier, the late Captain Robert Hugh Lowry OBE, has paid tribute to his father as “a family man” who loved his home at Blessingbourne Estate, and was highly-respected for his community work in the surrounding ...

THE late Albert Irwin Brown (Irwin) died peacefully on Wednesday, January 27. The beloved husband of Winnie, much-loved father of Gordon, Linda, Rosalind and Raymond, was an adored grandfather of nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

The latest update from the Department of Health on Covid-19 in Northern Ireland has shown there was only seven positive case and no deaths reported in the Fermanagh and Omagh area in the last 24 hours.

A teenager accused of a serious assault has been found in contempt of court after a foulmouthed outburst on learning a bail application would not be made at this stage.

Organisations in Brookeborough have received a funding boost from the Teiges Wind Farm Fund to support a wide range of educational, environmental, cultural and sporting initiatives.

A NORTHERN Ireland virologist has welcomed the process of the Northern Ireland vaccination programme.

A man and a woman have been hospitalised following a three car crash in Ballinamallard this morning.

The number of deaths due to Covid-19 in Fermanagh and Omagh remains at 95 deatsh recorded up until Feburary 19.

AT THIS time of the year, the Graan is usually a hive of activity as the Annual Novena of Hope is in full swing with people travelling from all across Ireland, Scotland and England to attend or take part in the yearly event.

ANTI-FRACKING campaigners, along with Extinction Rebellion Northern Ireland, have pleaded with politicians to not make Fermanagh a “sacrifice zone” to fracking.

THE lockdown has had some positive impacts in Fermanagh, as the District Commander for Fermanagh and Omagh told The Impartial Reporter that crime is down more than 20 per cent from last year in the district.

An 18-year-old man is to appear in court charged with grievous bodily harm with intent.

A LOCAL woman has experssed her outrage and disgust after discovering dead animal remains among large piles of household goods and general waste dumped along a rural road in the Lack area of Co. Fermanagh.

A man has been hospitalised following a lorry crash on a dangerous section of the Derrylin Road.

The PSNI has this morning been conducting the examination of a house in the Enniskillen area.

Police in Fermanagh and Omagh are warning people to be vigilant following suspicious activity around motorhomes.

The Covid-19 vaccination campaign may be having a positive impact on coronavirus cases in certain age groups.

The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) has today published an updated analysis of Covid-19 related deaths that occurred (based on the date of death) in Northern Ireland between 1st March 2020 and 31st January 2021.

Minister for Justice Naomi Long MLA has acknowledged the “abhorrent crime” of revenge pornography and has asked officials to look into the possibility of having victims granted automatic anonymity, as would be applied in sexual related offendi...

An investigation into a slurry dumping incident near Fivemiletown is being investigated. A spokeswoman for the Deparment of Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said: "On February 15 2021, NIEA received an anonymous call, ...

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Detectives investigating two incidents in Enniskillen in the early hours of Wednesday, February 24 which resulted in a 19-year-old man sustaining a serious head injury have arrested an 18-year-old man.

A 27-year-old man had his contest adjourned on Monday after his mother informed his lgal representatives that he was displaying Covid-19 symptoms.

As we reach the end of the February the possibility of a return to some sort of normality has appeared on the horizon.

Take a look at what was making the news in The Impartial Reporter in our Memories feature.

THE Mobile Breast Screening Unit is to return to the Lakeland Forum, Enniskillen with scheduled appointments to begin from March 8, the Western Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed today (February 24).The Trust has two such units which opera...

A 19-year-old man is in a critical conditon in hospital after sustaining a serious head injury in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

After Sean McBrien (46) was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer, his friends and family rallied around him to support the popular Bellanaleck man.

THE PSNI has released figures today (February 24) on domestic abuse incidents over the Christmas period, which saw an increase in reports on Christmas Day from the previous year.

There was widespread sadness following the death of Mrs. Isobel Knox, late of Tattykeel Kesh, on December 17, 2020.

A 57 year old man has been charged with possession of a firearm without a certificate, possession of firearms or ammunition in suspicious circumstances and possession of class A drugs.

There has been much sadness and regret following the death of Robert ‘George’ Little who was born on October 3, 1940.