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Family Fermanagh charity worker calls for urgent social security reforms at Stormont The Children's Service Manager of Action for Children in Enniskillen has warned that "there is a disconnect between the urgency and levels of need in our communities and the level of prioritisation afforded by decision-makers to tackle it". Enniskillen Foodbank 'We haven't turned anyone away': Enniskillen Foodbank braces for winter demand Enniskillen Foodbank is struggling to keep food on the shelves despite giving away fewer parcels than this time last year. Clogher Valley Show Youth awards and presentations to charity at Clogher Valley Show Following a highly-successful Clogher Valley Show at the end of July, the organisers held an evening of presentations of awards and cheques to charity. The nominated charity this year was ACE First Responders, a charity formed for the Augher, Clogher and Eskra areas. Emergency Lessons the world could still learn from Adomnán’s Law, 697AD A few months ago, I came across a map in a book on Early Medieval Ireland which contained names and locations of 91 prominent ecclesiastical and secular rulers who had gathered as guarantors at a special convention in 697 AD in Birr, Co. Offaly, at the invitation of Adomnán the Abbot of Iona, to promulgate Adomnán’s Law, which was the first attempt anywhere to agree that women, children and clerics must be protected in war. Bellanaleck Eric Doogan reflects life on the lough as he retires from Erne Marine On the edge of Lough Erne, in the village of Bellanaleck, a small wooden hut rests, and in it for the past 50 years, you would have found Eric Doogan. Read more

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