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 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 [...]

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, [...]

It was around this time last year that I visited St Eunan’s College to talk to a class of CSPE students about the roles and responsibilities of a Town Councillor. I was delighted to be asked back again last week.
This year’s class where similar to last year’s, in that they knew what they wanted to [...]

I’ve had the week-to-end-all-weeks over the past 8 days. Web server crashed last Sunday, taking a few dozens sites and few hundred email accounts with it *. I’ve been working on it literally around the clock since, and things are finally looking up. So that’s why things have been quiet around here! (This site is [...]