THE pupils at Willowbridge School have been working hard to develop a new wildflower meadow for their school, with the area set to celebrate bio-diversity and benefit the school in many ways.

A charge of driving with excess alcohol has been put to a forty-one-year-old man who appeared before Dungannon Magistrates Court.

MANY facets of life have had severe changes over the past year, including an important part of life in Fermanagh: religious life and community involvement.

New information has come to light in the case of a Fermanagh woman charged with child cruelty, which relates to allegations of encouraging the consumption of drugs and sexual activity with another person.

It is understood that Sinn Féin have chosen their three candidates in Fermanagh and South Tyrone to run in next year's Assembly election.

Five people were flung out of the boot of a speeding car as it reached speeds of up to 121kph in a horrific road crash on the way back from a nightclub, a court has heard.

THE Dean of Clogher, the Very Revd. Kenneth Hall, Rector of St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen, has been elected to the Chapter of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.

The Drumclay Nursing Home in Enniskillen is to close next Wednesday, March 31.

CELEBRATING his 101st birthday recently, Thomas 'Tommy' McBrien reflected briefly on how things have changed in Enniskillen.

A FERMANAGH gospel singer has released a new album that are certain to be uplifting and delightful.

FIRST Minister Arlene Foster has received her first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

THE Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) has begun to offer Covid-19 vaccinations to some of the most vulnerable people in our community – the region’s homeless population.

IT HAS been a year of highs and lows for the Fermanagh business community since the first lockdown came into force last March.

LOOKING back over the past Covid-ravaged 12 months, Mount Lourdes’ Principal, Sinead Cullen, believes that despite the many setbacks that have been experienced, the school community has to be commended on how it dealt with it all.

LISNASKEA GP Dr. John Porteous has been at the forefront of the fight against Covid-19 all along, seeing its insidious rise in his community and far beyond.

A FERMANAGH woman has bravely spoken out about how Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has greatly impacted her mother’s health and her family’s life.

Tributes have been paid to a stalwart of the Fermanagh traditional music scene, Bernard Robert ‘Sonny’ McDermott.

I suspect if a poll was held now asking people about their attitudes to the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont, many people would admit they wouldn’t miss it.

COUNCILLORS SHOCKED AND ANGERED BY A5 PROJECT DELAY ANNOUNCEMENT

THIS Friday, March 26, will mark one year since Ann Best was the first person to die of Covid-19 in Fermanagh.

For the third consecutive day the daily update from the Department of Health has reported no new Covid-19 related deaths in Northern Ireland.

It was music to the ears of the Mount Lourdes principal as the school was again filled with the sound of students.

A 23-YEAR-OLD man who abandoned the car he was driving following a crash has been disqualified from driving for 16 months.

Latest figures published today by NISRA show that 15 deaths involving Covid-19 occurred in the week March 13-19, 2021.

AFTER almost 42 and a half years, Chief Inspector Roy Robinson will retire from the PSNI at the end of the month.

A FERMANAGH resident is one of the faces behind a new app that will help those suffering with dementia

IT’S been a while since The Impartial Reporter last looked in on UTV’s hit show, Rare Breed, but for the farmers that the series is following it’s just been go, go, go.

STAFF and families from St. Ronan’s Primary School and Nursery in Lisnaskea have come together to help the local food bank and to highlight the increasing level of food poverty in the area.

Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 vaccination programme has passed three landmarks in just one day.

Multiple cases of harassing directors and family members of the former Quinn Industrial Holdings, since rebranded Mannok, have been adjourned to await the outcome of other proceedings involving one of the alleged victims.

The Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area has returned to the bottom of the table for positive cases in Northern Ireland.

A recently retired Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) Nurse has been awarded an MBE for her services to cardiology nursing throughout her long and successful career.

An insight into some of the news and sport in this week's paper.

AN ENNISKILLEN man has been fined for failing to comply with coronavirus restrictions.

TWO men accused of theft have been committed to the Crown Court.

Health Minister Robin Swann has announced £1million funding for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland.

AS Fermanagh and Omagh marks one year since the first coronaviruslockdown, there is welcome news this afternoon as the district reported no new positive cases of the virus in the past 24 hours in the Department of Health’s daily update.

Earlier this month the Royal Mail once again warned the public of “yet another example” of fraudsters trying to scam money out of the public.

The move comes following “positive” feedback from a trial in nine stores last year.

By now, most people are well aware of the main coronavirus symptoms which are a fever, a dry cough, and a loss of taste and smell.

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council recently launched it’s third ‘i-can fest’, a programme of activities for children, young people and adults with disabilities.

AOIFE Monaghan is a student teacher of French and Spanish from Irvinestown.

A house party in Derrylin on St. Patrick's Day was broken up by police.

ENNISKILLEN Magistrates Court heard on Monday how a 51-year-old man told police he would murder his girlfriend, and spat at a police officer.

People from Northern Ireland can now book their Covid-19 vaccine at the SSE Arena ahead of its opening on Monday next, March 29.

 

An Irvinestown man has been disqualified from driving after he was found to be almost three times over the legal limit.

An R driver who was detected travelling at over 100mph by police has been disqualified from driving.

There is a backlog of around 420,000 cancelled driving tests which the DVSA is having to work through.

With today, Tuesday, March 23, marking the one year anniversary of the beginning of the first lockdown, buildings in Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area will be lit up yellow, while there will also be a minute's silence held.