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 [...]
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 [...]
The Letterkenny Joint Policing Committee is meeting again today. There are a number of items on the agenda, chief among them a presentation from Aibhlinn McCrann.
Aibhlinn was heavily involved in preparing the Ballymun Community Safety Strategy, a document and community process which brought together various stakeholder groups in the Ballymun area (Gardai, Local Authority, Local [...]
The Letterkenny & Environs Development Plan 2003 - 2009 sets out the guidelines for the development of Letterkenny. It covers everything; roads, housing, education, water and all other infrastructure pieces. It sets out how the town should grow, and where.
The current plan expires in 2009 and Letterkenny Town Council, together with Donegal County Council, has [...]
UPDATE: Congratulations to St. Eunans’s, who were victorious today.
A few quick updates:
It’s County Final day again. St Eunan’s are taking part in their third final in a row, against a Glenswilly side which has only been playing senior football for a few years. The atmosphere around town has been electric. Highland Radio will have full [...]
Letterkenny has just been named “Ireland’s Tidiest Large Urban Centre” in the 2007 Tidy Towns awards, beating towns in our category like Ennis, Kilkenny, Malahide and Clontarf.
This has taken years of work, and is a great reward for all that has been done by those in the Tidy Towns Committee, the Town Council workers and [...]
Congratulations to the Gallagher clan, who have today set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname. More than 1,500 Gallaghers gathered at Letterkenny IT this afternoon, beating the record set by the Joneses in Wales last year.
The event took place as part of the Gallagher Clan reunion, [...]
The Gallagher Clan are currently holding an International reunion, based in Letterkenny. As part of the event, they are trying to set a World Record for the largest gathering of people with the same surname this Sunday (September 9th).
The event takes place from 1:30 to 5:30 at LYIT on the Port Road in Letterkenny. If [...]
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 [...]
