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  • Student counts days to leave Singapore in grip of SARS
    1. A University student from Irvinestown is counting the days until next Monday when she is to leave Singapore, one of the Asian countries dealing with the spread of the deadly SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus.

  • Candidates say election should go ahead
    1. With the sense of inevitability rising that elections will go ahead, representatives of four political parties here shared a platform in Enniskillen yesterday.

  • A war of words: commemoration or intimidation?
    1. Republicans have marked the spots where their heroes fell - but for unionists the weekend ceremony was an act of intimidation.

  • Penalty woe for Ballinamallard
    1. Football: Intermediate Cup Final 2003 - H & W Welders 1 Ballinamallard Utd. 1 (H & W won 4-3 on penalties a.e.t.) – Ballinamallard were defeated in the most cruel of fashions in the Intermediate Cup Final last Thursday night, the dreaded penalty shoot out was the only way the top two teams in the ‘B’ Division could be separated.

  • Student’s organ donation saves lives
    1. A decision by Fermanagh student Siobhan Leonard’s family to allow the 19-year-old’s organs to be used for donation has proved a good experience - that they have been able to help others. Out of their situation, it has been something positive.

  • Welcome to Fermanagh: dump your rubbish here
    1. Our neighbours across the Border are using Fermanagh as a cheap and convenient place to dump their rubbish - at our expense.

  • Where else can you sail to the shops?
    1. Blanaid McKinney hasn’t lived in Fermanagh for years and she’s amazed at just how much Enniskillen has changed.

  • Raspberry jam - is this the make-up for make-up artists?
    1. “What did you do this morning?” I ask 10-year-old Kathryn. “Well, I killed my father with shears and now I’m running away from this guy with a shovel,” she tells me.

  • £4 million expansion for Killyhevlin Hotel
    1. The Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen has announced a major £4 million expansion to its leisure and accommodation facilities expected to bring over 30 new full and part time jobs to the business.

  • Reunion is a class act
    1. A school reunion for past pupils of the former Knocknashangan School, near Garrison, proved a wonderful event - rekindling “all good memories”.

  • 400 jobs to be created in cross-Border power project
    1. More than 400 jobs are to be created in the South West Fermanagh border region with the development of two new projects launched this week in Teemore, Co. Fermanagh and Belturbet, Co. Cavan.