Last night’s Monthly meeting of Letterkenny Town Council was adjourned as a mark of respect on the death of Cllr Jean Crossan’s brother, who was buried on Sunday. The meeting reconvenes next Monday, Feb 18th. I have a few items down for discussion on the agenda, including maintenance on the Lismonaghan Road, formally naming the […]
Donegal County Council will be accepting Christmas Trees for recycling at the following 15 sites from January 5th until 20th. Trees are accepted free of charge.
Location
Site
Carndonagh
Civic Amenity Site
Buncrana
Buncrana UDC Offices
Moville
Council Chip Depot
Newtowncunningham
Courtyard Lifestyle Centre Ltd
Letterkenny
St Conal’s Hospital Carpark
Top of the Upper Car Park, accessible directly from the Kilmacrennan Road
Lifford
Council Machinery […]
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 […]
The topic of Sex Education was raised today on Highland Radio, with the announcement that the regulations surrounding contraception in the UK may be changing to allow the supply of the pill “over the counter” in pharmacies.
The topic always draws out some very entrenched positions. On this occasion, Mary Doherty of the Christian Solidarity Party […]
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 big thank you to everyone who turned up for our meeting this evening at the Regional Cultural Centre. I am absolutely delighted with how the meeting went; we had a great crowd of around 40 taking part in the meeting, all of whom got an opportunity to contribute there views on community safety and […]
A major public meeting, workshop and forum will take place tomorrow evening (Wednesday Nov 28th, at 7pm) at the Regional Cultural Centre (behind An Grianan Theatre, on the Port Road) to discuss the formulation of a “Safer Community Strategy” for Letterkenny.
What is this all about? The Joint Policing Committee (JPC) are working on a wide-ranging, […]
Today is Blog Action Day, a day for bloggers to draw attention to Environmental issues.
In Letterkenny Town Council, we take environmental issues very seriously:
We are currently taking part in the European Energy Award, which sees the council assessing all our activities (construction, local services, vehicles, travel etc) and making improvements to their environmental impact. […]
Alan Doherty is currently on Today FM, speaking to Matt Cooper about his ongoing medical treatment which will see him become the first person in the world born without a chin to undergo a groundbreaking medical procedure to have one constructed.
Alan has been truly inspirational; he is constantly upbeat, in good form, and has taken […]
