Last night (Dec 18), Letterkenny Town Council passed our annual budget for 2008. The budget will include a commercial rates increase of 3%, approximately 2 points less than the current rate of inflation and 1% less than the rate sought by the County Manager and Town Clerk in the Draft Budget.
I have some difficulties with [...]
A few quick updates regarding the Leisure Centre.
Firstly, Letterkenny Town Council met with Aura Leisure on Monday night to discuss the ongoing operation of the Centre, and some of the issues that have arisen since the Centre opened in July. To date, there have been over 87,000 visits for the Leisure Facilities, and over 6,700 [...]
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Brian Lenihan was in Letterkenny on Saturday, as part of the second Neil T Blaney Winter School. Following his speech, he held a meeting with the local Fianna Fail elected reps from Letterkenny and Milford.
I met with Brian Lenihan earlier last week, when I attended a meeting in [...]
A free “Family Fun Day” will take place at the new Leisure Centre on Saturday, September 15th from 2pm to 5pm.
The day will include:
Free balloon modelling
Free face painting
Free entry to Pool between 2 and 5pm
Free draw for Family Membership
Loads of Prizes
DJ at the Centre
The council ran three well-attended open days before the Centre opened. This [...]
A few quick updates.
RTE is reporting that the Galway Water Situation has been resolved. The boil notice has been lifted, and water has been deemed safe to drink. As the article notes, 240 people officially suffered from Cryptosporidiosis, although the official figure is likely to be in the region of 5,000. The official figures were [...]
A few notes about Letterkenny today.
Firstly, the new Regional Sports Centre is now finally open. All the “ceremonial” stuff was done last week, and all aspects of the centre are now open for full access from today onwards. I’ve put a few photos of this on the net, you can see them here.
The new Regional [...]
Thanks to Jay Doherty, from bogginzine.com, here are some more great photos taken at the Skate Park in Letterkenny.
I’d like to thank Jay for letting me use these photos, and to thank everyone on BogginZine.com for their feedback on the Skate Park. There’s plenty of good things about it, but also plenty we can work [...]
Found some great discussion about the pros and cons of the skate park equipment at the new Sports Centre in Letterkenny. In particular, this thread and this thread at bogginzine.com are going through some interesting points. Thanks to Jay Doherty for the photos below:
UPDATE: More photos from Jay available here.
This is very much a starting [...]
Final checks at the Leisure Centre
A quick note to highlight the public open days taking place at the new Sports Centre at Sallaghraine. The Centre will be open for public viewing throughout on tomorrow, Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th of May from 12 to 7pm.
I visited the centre earlier today to see how [...]
As has been the case at many recent council meetings, the meeting of Monday May 14th featured a long discussion about the old and new Leisure Centres in Letterkenny. At this meeting, there where two motions (one from Cllr Jimmy Harte, one from Cllr Neil Clarke) calling on the council to keep the old centre [...]