It's that seasonal time of the year again when mummers of all shapes and sizes "land in on" Enniskillen's town centre with their tomfoolery, revelry and the colourful performances of the idiotic hero combat mumming play.

Last year an Eastern European squad of Bulgarian mummers enacted rudimentary fertility dances on the Diamond and many Christmas shoppers simply missed out.

This year it's the turn of sinister and spookily masked Sardinian mummers to come Fermanagh's way! All funded by European Union Peace monies from the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister the Sardinians literally will take to the road and parade up Enniskillen's main street from East Bridge street, Townhall street, High Street and ending up at the Diamond again. Of course, all twenty Sardinians will take centre stage with their sinister rituals but this will be added to by several appearances on the Diamond from mumming troupes from Counties Down, Sligo, Dublin and Fermanagh's own popular Aughakillymaude mummers, (both junior and senior troupes).

For Jim Ledwith, the man solely to blame for letting the mummers loose on Fermanagh's citizenry there is words of caution for young females!! "When the Sardinians parade in their black wooden masks, black sheep's clothing and countless, deafening bells that are carried on their backs they will be accompied by another sinister set of white masked mummers dressed in women's clothing of red and white. The job of these male cross dressers is to expertly lassoe from long distances unsuspecting women with ropes. When they are expertly ensnared the message is that the lassoed women are immediately impregnated. The Sardinian mummers parade starts exactly at 2.45pm leading off from outside Eadie Mc Farland's Estate agents office in East Bridge Street.