An Tobar and Mull’s musicians taking Argyll way out there
First up – 19th January 2010 – diary date – Celtic Connections – the An Tobar Sessions. Now you’re getting it.The buzz from Mull is terrific.We reported recently on the Island Tour by the the talented...
View ArticleIreland win in 2009 shinty hurling international
It went to injury time and Ireland’s man of the match in the 2009 shinty V hurling International played at Bught Park in Inverness this afternoon was Shane Dooley.With 3 points already behind him, it...
View ArticleFor Argyll traffic growth
The latest site traffic statistics for ForArgyll.com show a year on year growth of over 325% from the end of November 2008 to the end of November 2009.The site continues to grow strongly and...
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Meeting of minds on Mid Argyll Swimming Pool
Jim Mather managed the all-but-impossible, chairing last night’s meeting (15th January) on the Mid Argyll Swimming Pool. With no obvious hands on the wheel, he steered what could have been an angry...
View ArticleMary’s Meals Ab Fab runner-up as UK’s Most Innovative Charity
We reported that the Argyll charity, Mary’s Meals, based in Dalmally, had been shortlisted for one of the nationwide Most Admired Charities Awards.Last night, at a ceremony in London’s Canary Wharf,...
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Elaine Morrison: a renewable energy
Elaine Morrison, the Scottish Green Party candidate for Argyll and Bute, came late to this campaign – declaring her candidacy only on 20th February. She is, however, no novice in the elections game.She...
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Alan Reid: the political realist
Alan Reid, MP for Argyll and Bute since 2001 and now, in 2010, standing again as the Liberal Democrat party candidate comes very directly from the Social Democrat wing of the party.It was the birth of...
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Pier crisis calls time for Inveraray to take responsibility for itself
[20.30 update below] For Argyll did a photographic expose of the thoroughly dangerous state of Inveraray Pier just under a year ago, on 24th August 2012 – Serious neglect of Inveraray Pier.This was not...
View ArticleMichael Moore’s choice to be sacked reveals insight into how Westminster...
It has been revealed in the last couple of days that former Scottish Secretary, Borders MP Michael Moore, had been offered the opportunity to resign – but chose to be sacked.Angry friends of Mr Moore...
View ArticleEarly candidate selection giving Labour a strong start in race for Argyll and...
Labour has the Argyll and Bute seat at Westminster as one of its five top targets to take in the 2015 UK General Election.In pursuit of this determination, the party went for an early selection of its...
View ArticleGalbraith to front pro-union case in Oban independence debate on Friday
Argyll Voluntary Action is hosting a debate on Scottish independence in Oban’s Argyllshire Gathering Halls between 1.30pm and 3.30pm this Friday, 7th February.Jamie McGrigor, Dalmally-based Highlands...
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Clyde RIver ferry: Business Scotland interview with CalMac’s Martin Dorchester
A generally interesting recent programme on Scotland and the shipping industry in the Business Scotland series on BBC Radio Scotland with Douglas Fraser, drew its expert interviewees from the Scottish...
View ArticleSpeculation on CalMac’s offshore bidding was ‘on the money’
Earlier in April, driven by curiosity at a throw-away remark by Douglas Fraser at the end of a recent BBC Business Scotland programme, that CalMac CEO, Martin Dorchester had told him at the end of an...
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Historic Scotland gives Auchindrain two years to prove itself
With the Auchindrain farm township, south of Inveraray, known last summer [2013] to have hit the buffers in its attempt to keep alive what is, in its entirety, a unique historic artefact testifying to...
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Oban South and the Isles by-election: Neil MacIntyre in profile
Neil MacIntyre has, in what must seem like a previous incarnation, worked for 20 years for Argyll and Bute Council. These days he works night shifts at Tesco. His wife works in the health sector. One...
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Oban South and the Isles: David Pollard in profile
‘I’ll be on the pier, wearing my rosette’, texted Dr David Pollard, the Mull-based Liberal Democrat candidate. ‘What? Not a rose between your teeth?’, we replied from aboard CalMac’s MV Isle of Mull,...
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Oban South and the Isles by-election: John Macgregor in profile
Almost as soon as we started talking, John MacGregor said: ‘I always want to be Number One, to be the best, to win. I’m not anywhere to be Number Two.’This wasn’t said in relation to the forthcoming...
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Oban South and the Isles by-election: Andrew Vennard in profile
Andrew Vennard is a young solicitor who came to Oban in 2006 to do his two year professional apprenticeship and has since chosen to make his home in the town, working with E.Thornton & Co.He is the...
View ArticleHistoric Kilmun to host Community Fair in Dunoon Burgh Hall
On the 19th July, Historic Kilmun is to host a Community Fair at Dunoon Burgh Hall, from 11am-2pm.Organisations, groups, charities and heritage trusts in the area will be showcasing all they’re doing...
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Two major winners last weekend: Mach 1 Stages Rally and Kintyre community
Reports coming in from a range of sources testify to on the outstanding success of the first – but not, surely, the last – Mach 1 Stages Rally held at the now community owned Machrihanish Airbase at...
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