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  • Campbell snubs Sinn Fein chair
    1. Sinn Fein councillors were up in arms yesterday (Wednesday) after the DUP Minister for Regional Development Gregory Campbell declined to greet Fermanagh District Council chairman Robin Martin.

  • Man left fighting for life after suffering a savage beating
    1. An Irvinestown man is fighting for his life after he was beaten savagely and left lying in the road just yards from his front door.

  • Mother had heart attack after being treated by Westdoc, husband claims
    1. The husband of a 34-year-old Newtownbutler woman who had a heart attack 12 hours after being sent home from the Westdoc out-of-hours GP service has been bitterly critical of the care she received.

  • Protest at threat to embalming facilities
    1. Hearses lined Spillers Place in Omagh last Thursday as Fermanagh’s funeral directors mounted a protest against the proposed withdrawal of embalming facilities at the Erne Hospital.

  • Protest at threat to embalming facilities
    1. Hearses lined Spillers Place in Omagh last Thursday as Fermanagh’s funeral directors mounted a protest against the proposed withdrawal of embalming facilities at the Erne Hospital.

  • Cooper claims Sinn Fein mob intimidated staff at Garrison polling station
    1. A Sinn Fein mob intimidated staff at a polling station in Garrison into allowing votes to be cast illegally resulting in their candidate, Michelle Gildernew, becoming MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone at the General Election on June 7, it is alleged. The claim is made by the Ulster Unionist candidate, James Cooper. He wants Miss Gildernew disqualified, and himself duly elected MP for the area.

  • Parade is restricted, but Orangemen won’t talk
    1. A spokesman for the Orange Order in Newtownbutler is insisting that they will not meet with Nationalists — even though failure to do so has resulted in even more restrictions on their parade this year.

  • Health trust faces debts of £300,000
    1. The Sperrin Lakeland Trust has come under fire from the Department of Health after running up a £295,065 deficit in two months.

  • Waiting game is over for Cleenish
    1. The waiting game has paid off for the residents of one west Fermanagh community.

  • Unionist councillors clash over election strategy
    1. Councillors from the UUP and the DUP have clashed over the causes of the Sinn Fein win at the Westminster election.

  • Barefoot pilgrims witness arrival of St.Thérèse Relics
    1. The Relics of St. Thérèse were given a very special welcome on the lake island of Lough Derg, Pettigo, last week.