Info
- Website: http://www.radiofyneside.co.uk
- Join Date: 29/02/08
- Location: Furnace
- Partner: Paul (dives for cover at the sound of : 'I've had an idea.'
- Profile: So many incarnations... critical path analyst, university teacher in media and performing arts, director, editor of Theatre Ireland, broadcast arts critic, Arts Council panellist, news junkie, ruined idealist but still trucking on... Managing Director of Radio Fyneside (to be charity: Fyneside Media Ltd), Project Manager, http://ForArgyll.com
Entertainment
- Movies: Hero (the most visually stunning film ever made), Pulp Fiction, Look At Me
- Music: Billy Bragg (Fav track: The world turned upside down), Leonard Cohen (Joan of Arc - and have you heard 'One of us cannot be wrong'?)
- Books: Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance (R Pirsig), Castles of Steel (R Ludlow), I have drunk ale in the country of the young (poem: WB Yeats)
- Games: Not my bag
- TV: Spitting Image (long lamented, much needed), Coast, Skins, Jonathan Ross
- Sports: Sailing, Skiing, Thinking - and Thinking again
Inspiration
- Place: Inis Saimer Co Donegal (used to live there - first to live there)
- Year: 1968 (well - we tried)
- People: My father (for inventiveness, optimism and courage), Harold Wilson (made politics fun for the first time),Tony Benn (meant what he said and did it as soon as he got the opportunity), Billy Connolly (a genuinely life enhancing spirit), Frank McGuinness (for unparalelled cultural generosity)
- Issue: Community-generated information and communications for Argyll - now - via superfast broadband for all of Scotland
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Recent Posts
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Grants up to £800 available to improve private water supplies ,
29 Aug 2008 in Community News
The Environmental Health department of Argyll and Bute Council is offering non-means-tested grants of up to £800 to people with private water supplies who are interested in improving them. Phone 01546 604131 for details and enquiries or go to the Private Water Supplies page of the Council’s website.
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Ardfern furniture-maker invited to show at Cheltenham’s Celebration of Craftsmanship & Design. ,
03 Jun 2008 in Community News
Tony Gill, a furniture-maker living in Ardfern, has been invited to show at this year’s Celebration of Craftsmanship & Design Exhibition in Cheltenham. The event, which is considered to be the premier showcase for fine furniture makers in the UK, takes place 16th. - 25th. August 08 in Thirlestaine Long Gallery, Cheltenham College. This is [...]
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Ardfern stalled on affordable housing at The Glebe ,
03 Jun 2008 in Community News
The Ardfern community had hoped that Fyne Homes would be able to build affordable housing on part of the Glebe land in the village, with other parts of the land used to support games and sport. Unfortunately Fyne Homes do not have the funding to do this at the moment and the scheme is back [...]
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One for nostalgics - first For Argyll training day at Craignish ,
03 Jun 2008 in Community News
Caught at the first training day of the For Argyll project way back when: Daniel in the foreground - after a large night locally; Tony in the background and, back to camera, tutor Charles Dixon-Spain. Photo: Lynda Syed from the Furnace team.
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