A RESOLUTION has been found to a proposal to erect a sign at Celtic Park, commemorating General Eisenhower’s visit to Enniskillen.

Originally Headhunters Museum had approached Fermanagh and Omagh District Council offering the granite plinth at Celtic Park as a gift.

But plans to proceed with its erection were stopped in their tracks when in February this year council members suggested a bi-lingual sign should be used instead.

Headhunters had informed the Council that while the wished to proceed with erecting the sign, they did not have the funds to provide a bi-lingual translation.

But sticking to their guns, the Council recommended that a report into costings for an Irish language translation be brought before members for consideration.

At the latest full Council meeting however, a new report informed members that Headhunters no longer wished to proceed the gift.

In a statement to the Impartial Reporter, Selwyn Johnston, curator at Headhunters Museum explained that a new opportunity to see the plinth finally instated was now being explored.

“Headhunters Railway Museum are currently in discussion with the Education Authority Western Region regarding a proposal to position the commemorative plinth on its property close to the playing fields at Celtic Park, which was the location on May 18, 1944 where General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe addressed the US 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division.”