FERMANAGH will recover from the latest atrocity because the spirit of Enniskillen has never really died, according to County Council chief executive, Ms Aideen McGinley. And, although the county was shattered by Saturday night's bombing, it is still very much "business as usual".
Ms McGinley lives a couple of hundred yards from the Killyhevlin Hotel. Her garden was full of debris when she dashed home from Athlone at 2.30 a.m. on Saturday morning, but Ireland's only female council chief believes that Killyhevlin was a kind of "cathartic watershed".
"Of course we are shocked and horrified, but that doesn't mean we are going to lie down. It's business as usual at the Killyhevlin and they plan to reopen on Friday.
"The conference room is still intact and the wedding function room is still operational so they are getting back to normal as quickly as possible."
And, despite the negative global images on Sunday, Ms McGinley believed Fermanagh will weather the tourism implications.
"We have a well established market. Our long term business will not be affected but the Republic of Ireland market is more volatile Southern visitors tend to react very quickly to events in the North.
"In a sense we were spoiled last year. It was the first summer of the ceasefire with exceptional weather and we earned £18.7 million. But although the figures were understandably slightly down, we were almost matching them until last week."
Ms McGinley says the initial cost of rebuilding the hotel could be £2 million to £3 million.
"You must add the cost of the loss of beds over a long period to that. But it's more difficult to assess the long term costs, but we are a resilient lot...
"It's a miracle that nobody was killed at the Killyhevlin, but in an ironic way it has diverted attention from the tensions over marches and that helps."
Ms McGinley is a non political employee of the council and declined to comment on the Orange marches, the RUC and the political implications of the bomb.
"Last week was a time when the shades of green and orange deepened, but we have to move on from that. We have always been good at co-operating on economic projects and on Monday we are launching a peace and reconciliation programme.
"It's ironic, but I suppose there will be huge interest in it now. I don't think that the existing investors in Fermanagh are a major problem, it's the potential investors we have to reassure and this programme is written by ourselves and very innovative. We didn't employ any outside consultants.
"But the Remembrance Day bomb was a lot worse and we survived and I am confident we will survive this as well and come out stronger", she said.
Tourism in Co Fermanagh, the most visited county in the North, is worth £18 million annually. The county is famous for its lakes and fishing and the industry fears that the images sent abroad because of the bombing at the Killyhevlin hotel in Enniskillen, and the past week's violence would have a serious impact.
One lake cruise company said the Northern Ireland had been pushed back 20 years in terms of marketing.
Elsewhere in the North, the clean up continued and the losses to public transport were estimated at £5 million.
Thirty five buses were completely destroyed in the violence, including 15 in Armagh alone. Over 100 were damaged and part of the railway track near Lurgan was damaged, severely disrupting rail services.
Among the other casualties was the cancellation by a cruise ship with 850 passengers on board of its intended stop off at Derry. CTC Cruiselines bypassed Derry at the request of the passengers.
In Belfast the Chamber of Commerce said sales were down 30 per cent in city centre businesses.