I was a guest on George Hook’s drivetime show on Newstalk today, to discuss the subject of CCTV cameras following the recent press reports of a UK policeman’s claims that CCTV investment has been a waste of money. My input was to talk about the success of the investment we’ve seen in Letterkenny, and to […]
I was on Highland Radio earlier today to discuss yesterday’s court sitting, where four nightclubs in the Letterkenny Garda area were refused extensions for the month of March, meaning they will have to stop serving at 1:30am.
The Gardai objected to the extensions, on the grounds of Public Order Offences, and used the example of the […]
Letterkenny’s Joint Policing Committee met again on Monday, to discuss policing in Letterkenny and the development of our Community Safety Strategy - “Safer Letterkenny”. (I’m Chairman of the JPC)
The most notable thing to take away from the meeting is the announcement that the Drugs Unit in the Letterkenny district is back up to full strength. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just off the Radio - had an interview with Mary Wilson regarding the Minister for Transport’s statement that he feels all Dual Carriageways should be changed to speed limits of 120km/h, from their current 100km/h.
The interview went well, and I got to talk about a number of other points related to Road Safety and our […]
Just off Highland Radio, where I was discussing the Moquito system with a representative of Youth Work Ireland and Sammy Wasson of Mac Security in Letterkenny.
I’m opposed to the system, as I’ve mentioned here before. I don’t believe the system is fair, and on my last post Damien Mulley raised the question of the legality […]
