Fermanagh

UUP Conference 2026 - Diana Armstrong

'A shambles from start to finish and a damning indictment of DAERA'

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Bullocks sell to £2280 at Newtownstewart

UUP Conference 2026 - Diana Armstrong

'We will not let drugs take hold of our rural communities'

Robert Graham joined the judging panel for the renowned Ulster Housewife’s Championship.

Beefing up the RUAS judging panel with local experts

Anne McMullan, director of marketing and communications at Visit Belfast, presents the Tourism and Hospitality Company of the Year award to Lough Erne Resort’s Jonathan Gallagher, director of marketing; Lydia Woods, sales and events manager; and Barry McCauley, director of Golf at the AIB BusinessEye Awards.

Lough Erne Resort celebrates standout awards season

AERA Chair Diana Armstrong MLA

Armstrong: A5 update still leaves landowners in the dark on compensation

Dr Patrick McAleavey

NI Agri-Rural Health Forum event - ‘Spread info, not infection’

Bill Porter, James Porter and Maurice Kettyle and James' daughter Emily with the World Steak Challenge Awards

Gill Hall Estate, Dromore wins three medals at World Steak Challenge

Neil Henderson (r), a suckler farmer from Lisbellaw Co. Fermanagh is pictured along with his father, David Henderson (l). Neil was one of the first farmers to sign up to the Bovine Genetics Programme and is encouraging others to do the same.

6443 farmers now registered for Bovine Genetics Project

Woman holds fuel pump nozzle

NI farm families struggling as 'diesel up 60p a litre since February

Bill Porter, James Porter and Maurice Kettyle and James' daughter Emily with the World Steak Challenge Awards

Gill Hall Estate, Dromore wins three medals at World Steak Challenge

Mr Ian Buchanan, host farmer with his grandchildren.

NI Agri-Rural Health Forum visit Ian Buchanan's Dungiven farm

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McAleer highlights case for restoring ANC payments

AERA Chair Diana Armstrong MLA

'Rural isolation must never mean suffering domestic abuse in silence'

The Tractor Run will take place on Sunday, September 6, bringing the local farming community together to raise vital funds for the much-valued Parkinson’s Fermanagh Branch.

Tractors, community and a cause close to home

MLA Diane Armstrong

Unacceptable for healthy animals to be culled in this manner - Armstrong
Diana Armstrong, UUP MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, has demanded urgent answers from DAERA Minister Andrew Muir following the deeply disturbing manner in which animals were culled on a farm near Fivemiletown.
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Áine Murphy MLA has commented on the latest Beef Carbon Reduction Scheme figures highlighting both the importance of supporting the farming sector and the need to ensure farmers in disadvantaged areas are not left behind.

Beef Carbon Reduction Scheme highlights need for ANC scheme - Murphy

Diana Armstrong

Sudden death in the Muckross Bay area this morning

Lough Erne Resort secured an impressive 33rd place in the prestigious new list, which recognises resorts across Continental Europe, Great Britain and Ireland where exceptional golf is matched by outstanding hospitality, accommodation and overall guest experience.

Lough Erne Resort named Northern Ireland's highest-ranked resort

Lyndsey Rankin, 31

Body of woman found in Lough Erne area believed to be missing woman

Staff members Ben and Fionn are pictured with donkey Chloe and farm owner Alan.

Fermanagh Fun Farm: rescue animals, community spirit & family days out

Farming Life news

Murphy welcomes funding for Ulster Canal

The new Boatyard Summer Solstice Double Gin

Boatyard celebrates Summer Solstice with unique gin

Lyndsey Rankin

Extensive search operation continuing today for Castlederg woman Lyndsey Rankin

Orla McGrady, Live Here Love Here Grants Officer and Gwen McCutcheon, ARC Healthy Living

Small Grants return for 2026 following investment in 2025 community projects

The most special moment with Briar

Retired racehorse helps Fermanagh woman survive devastating grief

Diana Armstrong MLA at Balmoral Show

'No farm is immune and no farmer is spared' - TB
Ulster Unionist Deputy Leader and Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Diana Armstrong has called for urgent, coordinated action on bovine tuberculosis.
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Yaroslav Tkachenko from Derrylin and Katelynn Henderson from Lisbellaw with Clare Millar, Loughry Campus.

A passion for food can open the door to exciting career opportunities

Members taking part in beef and sheep stock judging

Trillick and District YFC look back on a very busy 2025 for the club

Hazel, David and Barrie Hicks present the cheque to Kate McDowell (Chairperson Paeds in a Pod), Sharon Millar (Hospital Play Specialist), Naomi Heywood (Senior Nursing Assistant), Amy Sellar (Staff Nurse) & Gillian Sinclair (Hospital Play Specialist)

Funds raised for young patients in the Ulster Hospital by Fermanagh family

Sinn Féin's Agriculture spokesperson, Declan McAleer MLA and Nicola Brogan MLA

Brogan urges rural communities to support ANC bill

Chris Breen, Technical officer

Breen joins the UFU technical team

Armagh man Lloyd Dawson, Sales Director, Amcor Agriculture congratulates Donal Corrigan on his appointment as Area Manager for Ireland & Scotland

New Amcor Agriculture Area Manager for Ireland & Scotland

Today, Hereford bulls are used across the herd, producing calves ideally suited to Gary’s system and land type.

Hereford genetics deliver on a progressive dairy farm in Fermanagh

Santa and his elves arriving in Seskinore

Seskinore YFC festive fun as Santa switches on village’s Christmas lights

Pictured at the launch of the €32m WEST (Water Enhancements through Sustainable Treatment) project at Finn Lough in Co. Fermanagh are L-R: Paul Sheridan, Director of Corporate Services, SEUPB; Tzvetelina Bogoina, Director of Infrastructure Delivery, NI Water and Sean Callery, Head of Infrastructure Delivery, Uisce Éireann.

€32 million WEST project launches in Fermanagh

Farmers Margaret little & Delene Shannon alongside Diana Armstrong MLA and UFU President William Irvine

MLA Diane Armstrong attends UFU's Women in Agriculture conference

L-R: Charles Crawford, Founder, Ready Egg with Gráinne Moody, Director of Food and Drink, Invest NI, Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald, and Jenna Crawford, Ready Egg HR & Compliance Manager

Company provides a wide range of high-quality egg products

Farmers Margaret little & Delene Shannon alongside Diana Armstrong MLA and UFU President William Irvine

MLA Diane Armstrong attends UFU's Women in Agriculture conference

Rebecca Adams, Andrew Reid, Katie-Rose Wallace, Katie Mawhinney, Ceará-Louise Lemon and Anna Steele from Crumlin YFC

In pictures: More from the YFCU public speaking competition

Lucy Stevenson, Rachel Cochrane and Bethany Nutt from Moycraig YFC

In pictures: YFCU public speaking competition heats held across Northern Ireland

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Multi-agency partners are meeting in response to weather warning

Maurice Kettyle, of Kettyle Irish Foods in Lisnaskea, has pioneered meat ageing in unique salt moss chambers for rich flavours and eating quality.

Innovator Maurice focused on premium nutrient-rich grass-fed meat

The Curly Pigs farm Hungarian Mangalitsa pigs in Lisbellaw.

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The Ulster Farmers’ Union is supporting the campaign to maintain emergency general surgery services at South West Acute Hospital (SWAH). (Photo: stock image)

UFU stands with Fermanagh community to save local hospital

There has been a great entry for the fourth annual Competition to choose Fermanagh’s best Commercial Suckler Herd.

Fermanagh Farming Society is supporting three distinctive sectors

Fermanagh’s Rose, Caoimhe Connolly from Roslea, who completed the Level 2 Agriculture Business Operations course in beef production with CAFRE.

Caoimhe Connolly, Fermanagh’s Rose 2025 completes CAFRE course

Host farmer Connor Donaldson addresses visitors to the farm walk

UGS Summer Meeting held this week at Lisgoole Abbey near Enniskillen

Visitors from North Antrim at the UGS farm walk included Bill Harpur and James Morrison

UGS Summer Meeting held this week at Lisgoole Abbey near Enniskillen

Fedian’s rich mosaic of habitats - meadows, hedgerows and ancient woodland - are a rare remnant of Northern Ireland’s natural heritage and a living example of nature-friendly farming that Ulster Wildlife will now protect and showcase for future generations.

Rare Fermanagh farmland has been safeguarded for nature

Overall award winner and Northern Ireland Cat 2 winners, Adam and Matthew Kerrigan,

Co Fermanagh farm family announced as Supreme Champions

Committee members visited Encirc in Derrylin, County Fermanagh, to hear about its circular business model

Informative two-day visit to Counties Tyrone and Fermanagh

Air Ambulance NI pilot Richard Steele with Gale Sergeant and William Taylor from W & R Barnett.

New weather station to enhance Air Ambulance operations

At the opening of the exhibition are, from l-r, Rodney Edwards, Editor, Impartial Reporter, Joanna McVey, former Managing Director of the Impartial Reporter, Chair of Fermanagh and Omagh District John McClaughry, and Catherine Scott and Sinead Reilly, Museum Development Officers, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council.

Exhibition marks 200 years of The Impartial Reporter

School pupils joined Fermanagh and Omagh District Council’s Climate Team and members of the Omagh Rotary Club to plant trees at Arleston Park.

Students plant trees in park

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