A FERMANAGH-BASED victims’ group met with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis, in a meeting shortly before Christmas that was described as “robust”, marking the first time the Secretary had met with any victims’ group s...

THE announcement by the Education Minister of the cancellation of all GCSE, AS and A-Level exams in Northern Ireland on Wednesday has been described as “soul-destroying” by a local principal.

The Department of Health have reported 20 further Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland in the last 24 hours, with three of those taking place in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.

Work believed to be due to begin this Monday (January 11) on a section of road between Derrylin and Bellanaleck which has been "left in a state of neglect for years" will not start until March.

Latest figures published today by NISRA show that 115 deaths involving Covid-19 occurred in the week  Decemeber 19 to 25 December 2020, with a further 91 deaths occurring last week from December 26 2020 to January 1 2021. The total Covid-19 rel...

A third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK, but doses will not be available until the spring.

The PSNI and Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service have provided an update on a car crash that occured last night (Thursday).

The opening times of the Covid-19 testing centre in Enniskillen have been extended to meet demand.

Conor McCafferty, who comes from a background of youth work, further education, counselling and psychotherapy, will be speaking about emotional health and the positive and negative ways to deal with feelings at the Aisling Centre’s Hope, Healing an...

A HOUSE fire in Enniskillen last night (Thursday) has been extingushed by the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS).

THE B-Friend Hub Fermanagh were delighted to deliver Christmas Emotional and Wellbeing packs to 90 older people throughout Fermanagh recently.

2020 marked an unprecedented year for the Enniskillen Gift Card, that recorded huge sales of the card.

A Fermanagh road has been closed this evening following a one vehicle crash.

There has been much confusion in the last number of days over the transfer test which was due to take place this weekend but one Fermanagh parent has said the test should go ahead on the rescheduled date. The parent also felt that all the uncerta...

Routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries will be postponed "until further notice", the Western Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed today (January 7).

One further death and 100 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported by the Department of Health in Fermanagh and Omagh today (Thursday).

Detectives in Fermanagh are appealing for information regarding a burglary at a property on the Moorlough Road, Lisnaskea where entry was forced and rooms were “ransacked”.

BALLINAMALLARD Primary School pupils recently took part in cycling skills sessions aimed at equipping children with the skills and knowledge of how to cycle competently and confidently.

A RETIRED Fivemiletown College teacher who also worked as a youth and community tutor says the news that he is a recipient of a BEM in The Queen's New Year's Honours list has come as a "pleasant surprise".

THE overnight snowfall across Fermanagh has left much of the county looking like a Winter wonderland.

In this week's Impartial Reporter.

A CONVICTED sex offender who has recently served the equivalent of a six-month prison sentence for multiple instances of indecency is facing a new count of exposure, which allegedly occurred prior to the last matters being dealt with in court.

All scheduled GCSE and A-level examinations in Northern Ireland will be cancelled, Peter Weir has confirmed.

Police have calle don the public to be aware of a phishing text message scam which is circulationg telling people they are "eligible" for the Covid-19 vaccination.

ASDA, Aldi, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Lidl have all moved to update customers amid a third national lockdown.

A weather warning has been put in place by the Met Office for early tomorrow morning (January 7) as snowfall is expected in parts of Northern Ireland, including County Fermanagh, overnight.

There has been a large community effort by the Fivemiletown Coronavirus response group to bring festive cheer to the Clogher Valley with festive goodie bags and Christmas cheer aplenty.

A STUNNING array of works were submitted for the annual 1FT SQ exhibition hosted by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, which for the first time in its 13-year history is taking place virtually via Strule Arts Centre's Facebook page.

The Executive have tonight (Tuesday) agreed a package of additional restrictions given the high levels of Covid-19 transmission in the community.

The Education Minister, Peter Weir, has said pre-school education settings, primary and post primary schools will be required to provide remote learning to pupils until the half term break in mid-February.

With schools set to reopen next week and exams still scheduled to go ahead despite the increase in positive cases and deaths in Northern Ireland due to Coivd-19 as well as the discovery of a new strain of the virus which is more transmissible, one te...

First Minister Arlene Foster has been issued a threat by loyalist paramilitaries.

POLICE officers who called at the home of a County Tyrone man to carry out a bail check on Christmas Day were threatened with being stabbed in the neck by a chisel, a court has been told.

The Department of Health has recorded 18 further deaths related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, with one of those occurring in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.

After weeks of uncertainty, the post-primary transfer tests scheduled for this month have been cancelled as schools remain closed amid a surge in Covid-19 infections in the north.

A number of new measures are expected to come into force in Northern Ireland, including the extension of remote learning for pupils, as the Executive tries to curb the progression of the Covid-19 pandemic.

KOULLA Yiasouma, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, paid a visit to Fermanagh Trust recently to meet with its Grant Maker Apprentices.

AN ENNISKILLEN school has raised more than £6,000 for the international development charity, Concern Worldwide.

WITH an agreement on Brexit reached just before Christmas, politicians in Stormont and Westminster convened on Wednesday to debate the 1,200-plus page agreement made between the UK and the EU.

The South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF) is looking forward to plans for investment in the old Lisnaskea High School site.

There were 358 new cases of coronavirus recorded in Fermanagh and Omagh between Friday and Monday. In the same four day period there were three deaths recorded in Fermanagh and Omagh, the three dead were all males over the age of 80.

POLICE in Fermanagh are investigating the circumstances of a death on Lough Erne over the weekend. The PSNI and the Community Rescue Service have confirmed the death of a man on Lough Erne on Saturday afternoon.

A SCIENTIST from Kinawely now based in Amsterdam has led a breakthrough discovery in childhood cancer research.

There has been a "huge surge" in demand for food parcels and hampers this year for Enniskillen Foodbank, the manager, John Shades told the Impartial Reporter.

ENNISKILLEN Retained Fire Fighters have made a donation of gifts to the Children’s Ward at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH).

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A “HAPPY, content little baby” was dramatically born to Fermanagh parents on their front lawn in Brisbane on December 9, with baby Michael Leavey joining proud parents, Emmett (31) and Lisa Leavey née Doran (33) before they could reach the hospi...

MARATHON man Grant Weir has finished his ‘Going for a walk, hi’ challenge.

THE friends, family and colleagues of "caring and compassionate" Nuala McLaughlin have been left heartbroken following the untimely passing of the local social worker – the first Western Health and Social Care Trust staff member to die after contra...

THE Presidential address at this year’s Clogher Diocesan Synod, held by Zoom online conference call, was presented by the Archbishop’s commissary for Clogher Diocese, Archdeacon Brian Harper, on Thursday, December 26.