Tourism Money Donegal County Council has been allocated €105, 000 from central government to fund a public area enhancement scheme in advance of the 2014 tourism season. This additional, once-off fund is being provided to support local authorities’ efforts to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Politics
Success Labour councillor, Martin Farren, has welcomed the progress in sourcing funds for repairs to the storm damage which occurred in the first round of bad weather in January this year. “Letters were issued on Thursday to the seven worst […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Judgments I watched a TV programme today on how we make judgments. The point of the programme is that the brain makes its mind up in just a tenth of a second on a person they meet for the first […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What's the point of an Uncontrolled Crossing Point?
Uncontrolled Crossing Point I did notice a while back that the pedestrian crossing in Moville had disappeared. It was replaced by another bit of road that was different to the rest. Another new one was added up by the Foyle […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What’s the point of an Uncontrolled Crossing Point?
Uncontrolled Crossing Point I did notice a while back that the pedestrian crossing in Moville had disappeared. It was replaced by another bit of road that was different to the rest. Another new one was added up by the Foyle […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Crossing Points Mary McCauley the Fianna Fail candidate for the May local elections is urging local people to be aware of the confusion caused by the crossing points in local towns and villages such as Muff and Moville. The Fianna […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Should Council spend 10K to send Councillors to New York parade?
Council Trip The Council have voted to spend €10,000 to send Mayor Ian McGarvey, Deputy Mayor Michael McBride, Count Manager Seamus Neeley and another Council official to represent Donegal on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York. Sinn Fein […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most Eastern Europeans have gone home
New Figures I remember during the boom years there was a big hoo-ha about the number of people who came here from Eastern Europe. However, these were economic migrants. Just like our youngsters who are out in Australia, New Zealand, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
IMF Leader After insisting that we bailed out the German banks and the German taxpayers at the time, the former leader of the IMF, who used to come to Ireland with the other members of the troika, is now saying […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Campaign Launch He had expected maybe 30 or 40 people to turn up to see him launch his campaign. However, in the end there would have been double that. Virtually every seat was taken at the Greencastle Community Centre. Martin […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…