A few updates to the blog, after a long absence….

• Digipics design has some great pictures of Letterkenny over the years up on Flickr. I really like the photo above of Dillons supermarket, from about 15 years ago.
• Congratulations to Mayor Jean Crossan on a succesful Mayor’s Ball, whic will see a substantial amount of cash going to the Donegal Hospice and Crumlin Childrens Hospital.
• The Electoral Area Committees have recommended substantial changes to the electoral areas for Donegal, in particular merging much of the Letterkenny and Milford areas and going to seven councillors. I think it will be of real benefit to Milford, with seven voices in Lifford and seven active campaigners.
• Iris Robinsons horrendous comments last week make this great piece from the West Wing worth another link.
• I’ll be posting to this blog fairly frequently over the coming weeks. In between updates here I’ll be updating to Twitter.
• IrishElection.com and Richard Delevan’s blog have been really good recently, with coverage of the Lisbon treaty and the US election.
• The Boston College Irish Institute have published their list of programmes for the next academic year. The programmes are fantastic; a mix of practical and academic sessions, in two US cities, on a variety of topics including Politics, Policing and Economics. It’s definitely worth a look.

Related Entries

• Polestar at night (February 21, 2007)
• What’s going on in Derry? (February 3, 2007)
• Update- May 14th 2007 (May 14, 2007)
• Update, September 2005 (September 26, 2005)
• Update, October 3rd 2006 (October 3, 2006)

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2 Responses to “A few quick updates…”

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1. cian Says:
   June 20th, 2008 at 12:16 am

   always a good time for west wing clips - that especially is class.

   thanks for the link, im delighted we are keeping readers happy!

   whats your take on the new leader? dont think lisbon will affect him domestically but think Enda is in a spot of bother. You?

2. Damien Blake Says:
   June 20th, 2008 at 12:27 am

   There’s very few situations that can’t be better understood with the help of the West Wing!

   New leader dropped the ball on Lisbon, but I don’t think it will damage him. He’s got a tough six months left this year, if he can get through that there’s little that will stop him. I don’t think he’ll serve as long as Bertie, but he should be capable of taking the tough decisions that are needed over the next two years.

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