A quick update on the plans for Letterkenny’s Community-Based CCTV programme.
This week, the various groups involved in the project met with the contractor who was succesful in the recent tendering process. Access Video Projects, based in the North, have experience building similar (and much larger) systems around the country, and bring great expertise to the [...]
Last night’s Council meeting saw us pass our Budget for 2007, and set the new Commercial Rate.
In the end, we passed a rate increase of 4%, which is either slighly above, slightly below or in line with inflation, depending on which metric you use. Last year’s rise, of 3%, was below most inflationary estimates by [...]
The Irish Times today printed a large supplement on “Virtual Ireland“, talking about computing, the Internet and other new technologies, and how they have affected the lives of Irish people.
Part of the supplement included pieces from a variety of Irish Bloggers. I was delighted to send them a piece for inclusion. Here’s the piece I [...]
A few quick updates:
Commiserations to St. Eunans, who lost this weekend’s County Senior Football Championship final to Gaoth Dobhair. Hopefully things will go better next year. Gaoth Dobhair were the best team in what was a disappointing game, and came through with a late flourish
Donegal is set to get more than 10% of the new [...]
The Letterkenny Joint Policing Committee (JPC) met again on Thursday night (Oct 5th), to discuss two topics - the CCTV application, and election of a Deputy Chairperson for the Committee.
As part of the Grant funding process for the CCTV application, the local JPC must be consulted before final approval is given. Joanne Sweeney from the [...]
Letterkenny has recently been chosen as one of 22 areas in the country to take part in the pilot programme for the establishment of Joint Policing Committees, which will see local representatives come together with members of the community and Gardai to discuss matters related to local policing.
As part of this process, the council are [...]
As mentioned in this Highland Radio News article, Letterkenny has been succesful in gaining the operational funding from the Department of Justice to install a CCTV system in the Town.
I’m delighted by the news. I’ve been campaigning for CCTV for over two years now. It was one of the main points of my election campaign, [...]
September has been a very busy month here in Letterkenny! Here’s a quick update on just some of what’s been going on.
Fleadh Cheoil: The Fleadh was a huge success, and this has been reflected by Letterkenny being offered the Fleadh for 2006. We’ve got a few things to learn, but on the whole the Fleadh [...]
From yesterday’s “Donegal on Sunday” newspaper:
Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Will host an Information Seminar on its CCTV Application for Letterkenny
You are invited to attend this event on Wednesday August 17th 2005 at 10am in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce at 40 Port Road, Letterkenny.
Please reply to 074 912 5505 or by email [...]
Mayor of Letterkenny, Damien Blake, has welcomed the recent movement towards a community-based CCTV system for Letterkenny. Speaking at the weekend following a meeting last week with representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the Gardai, Cllr Blake highlighted the work done to date by a variety of groups and organisations in the town.
“CCTV has [...]