A quick post to say that the Letterkenny Town Bus is now in action. The bus started runing this morning (Mon, July 23rd) and will operate daily from 7am to 7pm.
The bus is operated by Dohertys of Dungloe, and runs on two routes around the town. The draft routes where presented to the Councillors  in [...]

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 [...]

A few quick updates:

An Taoiseach has announced the Junior Ministers. Pat the Cope has been moved to Dept of Health, with responsibility for Health Promotion and is pledging to “lead by example”.
Niall Blaney has not been promoted. This has come as something of a surprise to us here in Donegal North East. Niall is clearly [...]

If you’re looking for the official Donegal Tourism Website, you can find it here: www.donegaldirect.com
From HighlandRadio.com today:

The biggest ever marketing domestic campaign for Donegal got underway today.
A number of TV and radio adverts will be run on both sides of the border in a bid to attract more Irish visitor to this county. The campaign [...]

A quick note to say good luck to Alan Doherty. Alan, a student at Letterkenny Vocational School, is currently in America undergoing a unique, life-changing operation. Alan was born without a Lower Jaw, and surgeons at the Mount Sinai Medical Centre are working to give him a Mandible and Lower Jaw.
His case has brought attention [...]

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 [...]

Things are getting back to normal here after last week’s General Election. We got a great result here in Donegal North East; Dr James McDaid was returned as a Dáil deputy, and Niall Blaney was re-elected to give Fianna Fail two of the three seats, on 50.4% of the vote. Cecilia Keaveney lost her seat, [...]

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 [...]

A quick mid-campaign update on a few things.
The 2007 Mayor’s Ball took place on Friday past in the Clanree Hotel. Congratulations to Cllr Ciaran Brogan for an excellent evening; I’m sure a huge sum was raised for this year’s charity, Help Us Dry The Tears.
Campaigning continues for the 2007 General Election. I’m backing Dr James [...]