County Fermanagh

Shale of the century – the future for fracking in Ireland

Peter Donaghy (Salmon of Data) on March 1, 2015, 10:34 am

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Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” as it has become universally known, is a technique for extracting reserves of oil and gas that would be otherwise impossible or uneconomic to extract. The technique, which involves injecting rock with a mixture of water, chemicals and sand, has become one of most contentious issues in British and Irish politics. Advocates of fracking say that more widespread use of the technique could bring cheaper energy and reduce reliance on (not always friendly) foreign suppliers. Opponents …

Derrylin to host hunger strike commemoration

Turgon on July 20, 2014, 2:46 pm

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The 2014 National Hunger Strike Commemoration has been announced to be in Derrylin Co. Fermanagh this year complete with buses to the event. Diane Woods the niece of local IRA murder victims Thomas and Emily Bullock told the Belfast Telegraph she felt sick at the prospect. From the Belfast Telegraph: A gang of up to six masked men carried out the brutal attack on Mr and Mrs Bullock. They arrived at the isolated farmhouse in Aghalane just outside Derrylin at …

Red Squirrels and Pine Martens in Fermanagh

Turgon on May 3, 2014, 12:20 pm

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Amid all the fevered discussion of recent days I thought something much lighter and fun was called for. From the BBC: Queens academic Dr. David Tosh has been trying to gain further information about the distribution of red and grey squirrels in Fermanagh with help from the Fermanagh Red Squirrel Group and the National Trust in putting up camera traps to photograph red squirrels. This has been somewhat successful but has actually taken many more photographs of the rarer and …

Belfast Telegraph: Strabane Fermanagh

Turgon on August 2, 2013, 12:05 pm

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Belfast Telegraph headline: Strabane gets shirty over patriotic top American company thinks Fermanagh town’s in Scotland The Belfast Telegraph has an article poking fun at an American company producing a t shirt with a Union Flag and the name Strabane on it. The company told the Belfast Telegraph it was Strabane Scotland which according to the Bel Tel’s research does not exist. Unfortunately on its front page the Belfast Telegraph also has a non existent town: Strabane, Fermanagh. Update: They …

‘Tax avoidance’ makes the G8 in Fermanagh more meaningful to Dublin than Stormont…

Mick Fealty on June 14, 2013, 11:53 am

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Yep, and if you want a short (if a little repetitive) pen picture of what and the who of the G8, this short video from the US Embassy in London is as good a grab as any. You can see from the ariel photographs here just why the Lough Erne Golf Resort was such a no brainer to the organisers. To steal from Shakespeare’s John o’ Gaunt “it is a precious stone set in the silver sea/Which serves it in …

“The new A32 Cherrymount link road near Enniskillen will eventually be built on top of the crannog…”

Pete Baker on November 29, 2012, 8:28 pm

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The BBC reports, as do other news outlets, the Northern Ireland Environment Minister’s press release on “the first substantial, scientific excavation of a crannog in Northern Ireland”. A “huge treasure trove of artefacts” was uncovered – potentially of “international importance” – and the crannog was occupied from at least AD 900 to AD 1600. The ministerial press release also announced “the Drumclay Crannog Open Day on Saturday 1st December” – between 9.30 and 3.00pm. The BBC has the DoE images in an online gallery. …