Info
- Website: http://www.radiofyneside.co.uk
- Join Date: 29/02/08
- Location: Furnace
- Partner: Paul (dives for cover at the sound of : 'I've had an idea.'
- Profile: So many incarnations... critical path analyst, university teacher in media and performing arts, director, editor of Theatre Ireland, broadcast arts critic, Arts Council panellist, news junkie, ruined idealist but still trucking on... Managing Director of Radio Fyneside (to be charity: Fyneside Media Ltd), Project Manager, http://ForArgyll.com
Entertainment
- Movies: Hero (the most visually stunning film ever made), Pulp Fiction, Look At Me
- Music: Billy Bragg (Fav track: The world turned upside down), Leonard Cohen (Joan of Arc - and have you heard 'One of us cannot be wrong'?)
- Books: Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance (R Pirsig), Castles of Steel (R Ludlow), I have drunk ale in the country of the young (poem: WB Yeats)
- Games: Not my bag
- TV: Spitting Image (long lamented, much needed), Coast, Skins, Jonathan Ross
- Sports: Sailing, Skiing, Thinking - and Thinking again
Inspiration
- Place: Inis Saimer Co Donegal (used to live there - first to live there)
- Year: 1968 (well - we tried)
- People: My father (for inventiveness, optimism and courage), Harold Wilson (made politics fun for the first time),Tony Benn (meant what he said and did it as soon as he got the opportunity), Billy Connolly (a genuinely life enhancing spirit), Frank McGuinness (for unparalelled cultural generosity)
- Issue: Community-generated information and communications for Argyll - now - via superfast broadband for all of Scotland
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Recent Posts
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Islay and Jura residents invited to contribute to development plan for health service provision ,
15 Nov 2008 in Community News
Residents of Islay ad Jura are being asked to say how they think health services to their islands should be provided. Local doctors, nurses, ambulance staff and surgery staff are all contributing their ideas. Argyll & Bute Community Health Partnership (CHP) also wants to hear from island residents including, of course, those who act as [...]
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Well done Tayvallich on funding success ,
30 Aug 2008 in Community News& Transport
And our ferry may have played a part in it. The Tayvallich community, at the other end of our new link to mainland Argyll, has just got almost £200,000 from BIG Lottery toward their buy-out of the shop, post office and cafe in the village. The ferry from there to here has brought both of [...]
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Grants up to £800 available to improve private water supplies ,
29 Aug 2008 in Community News
The Environmental Health department of Argyll and Bute Council is offering non-means-tested grants of up to £800 to people with private water supplies who are interested in improving them. Phone 01546 604131 for details and enquiries or go to the Private Water Supplies page of the Council’s website.
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Seafood Extravaganza for Cancer Research ,
07 Aug 2008 in Community News
Seafood Extravaganza tonight - 7th August. All locally caught produce - lobster, langoustine, scallops, squat lobster and mackerel…to raise funds for Cancer Research.
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First two days in August - Civic Reception, great media coverage - and the regatta ,
06 Aug 2008 in Community News
The first of August was our Civic Reception in celebration of the first ferry direct to mainland Argyll for thirty six years. The Herald - in half a page of coverage of the event - has noted that a MacBrayne’s ferry called at Craighouse Pier for the last time in 1972. For Argyll has another [...]
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1st August Civie Reception also celebrates new moorings, pontoons and landing bridge ,
22 Jul 2008 in Community News
As well as marking our successes in getting the passenger ferry to Tayvallich launched and raising the funding to develop The Antlers, the Civic Reception on 1st August marks our other major achievement in installing eight new moorings and two pontoons woth the landing bridge. These facilities will offer much more support to visiting yachts [...]
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Maybe our new ferry will help Tayvallich to buy its shop? ,
22 Jul 2008 in Community News
Our twin community in the new passenger ferry from Craighouse to Tayvallich in Kintyre is mounting a determined effort to buy out its village shop, post office and cafe. The ferry traffic coming into Tayvallich has already brought increased trade to the cafe, as people arrive early for boarding. This might make the business [...]
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Let’s celebrate ,
17 Jul 2008 in Community News
The new fast passenger ferry from Tayvallich to Craighouse has been running for around a month and has already tripled the numbers carried. We’ve got funding for the Antlers project so now a tearoom, interpretation and craft centre are on the horizon. So - in the Village Hall at Craighouse on 1st August, we’re holding [...]
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Anger obvious at meeting with Council reps over Port Askaig ferry mess ,
11 Jul 2008 in Community News
A meeting about the awful mess that is the damage caused by the new slipway at Port Askaig to Jura’s ferry link with Islay saw plenty of plain speaking from over sixty islanders aimed at two responsible officers of Argyll and Bute Council - Director of Operational Services, Andy Law and Principal Engineer, Peter Ward. [...]
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Development Trust wins Lottery Award for The Antlers ,
25 Jun 2008 in Community News& The Antlers
The Jura Development Trust are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a grant of £146,594 from The Big Lottery - Investing in Communities.
The award will provide 50% of capital costs for redeveloping the Antlers building to incorporate a tearoom, craft display and sales area and an Interpretation Display. In addition 75% of core [...]
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