Mather hopes to see BBC Alba on Freeview
The BBC Trust is currently reviewing the performance and transmission arrangements of Scotland’s Gaelic television service, BBC Alba.Form the start of the service there has been resentment that its...
View ArticleFinal version of Crofting Bill unveiled
There’s been much tooing and froing on this one – largely with Crofters unable to decide on whether they most want the cultural security of protection of croft land and houses or the personal security...
View ArticleMG Alba Chair thanks For Argyll readers for Gaelic media support
Alasdair Morrison, Chair of Gaelic media company, MG Alba has written to thank readers of For Argyll for their support for BBC Alba.We’re not daft enough to imagine we’re the only media service he’s...
View ArticleArmando Iannucci tells of deadly signals in Iraq
Film-maker and author of TV series In the Thick of It and film In the Loop – both letting light into the shambles behind the scenes of government – Armando Ianucci reveals a shocking fact about the...
View ArticleGloves off for Gaelic in the North East
Roaring out of the Red Corner – and red in tooth and claw where Gaelic is concerned, comes Labour Councillor Deirdre Mackay who has criticised Highland Council’s efforts to provide accommodation and...
View ArticleThompson proposes a fate worse than death for critics of Gaelic
Today Holyrood debated BBC Alba and the case for making it available on Freeview.This is something the channel has argued for from the outset.The issue of Gaelic, its role in Scottish culture and...
View ArticleBBC Trust sits on its hands over BBC Alba
Never the most decisive or authoritative body, the current BBC Trust, post the excesses of the Hutton Enquiry, is one of the most damaging the organisation has experienced.Today, the Trust announced...
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Dunoon archiving Argyll’s Gaelic speakers
Over the last year pupils at Dunoon Grammar School have been closely involved in an innovative archiving project, interviewing local Argyll Gaelic speakers and learning about the heritage of the area....
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BBC Alba series on Gaelic Bards: Baird nan Oran
The first of these programmes is tonight – Wednesday 7th April at 8.30pm – on Donald MacIntyre, aka Domhnall Ruadh Phaislig and that last name gives his place – Paisley, west of Glasgow on the Clyde....
View ArticleGinealach Ùr na Gàidhlig published – plan for new generation of Gaelic speakers
Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the principal public body promoting and developing Gaelic, today published Ginealach Ùr na Gàidhlig – a plan to create a new generation of Gaelic speakers. The focus of the plan is on...
View ArticleTourism Minister welcomes CalMac’s Gaelic initiative
Caledonian MacBrayne’s has just announced an innovative scheme to encourage staff members to learn and use Gaelic.An imaginative method of online learning utilising a ‘toolkit’, incorporating...
View ArticleMod fringe launches Gaelic and Norse in the Landscape
A new booklet letting light in on the original place names and the shifts in political power they reflect in north Scotland is being launched in Caithness tomorrow at the annual festival of Gaelic...
View ArticleNew Year resolution help for would be Gaelic learners
Fòram na Gàidhlig is a collection of forums of folk interested in Gaelic, some speakers, some not and some starting out.Many non-Gaelic speakers are interested in the language, want to learn it, try to...
View ArticleProgramme for first week November shows BBC ALBA’s diversity
BBC ALBA continues to show imagination and a wide ranging curiosity in its diverse programming.Highlights from the schedule for the week from 3rd to 9th November 2012 have just been released and are an...
View ArticleLanguage issues in Scottish education
There are two current issues in primary education which may, in some ways, conflict – certainly conceptually and, just now, in terms of competition for available funding. Both are language centred.One...
View ArticlePrincipal of St Andrews University suggests paying for higher education...
This is an interesting issue and one with a long way to run.In yesterday’s edition of The Herald [1st April 2013], Professor Louise Richardson, Principal of one of Scotland’s top universities, St...
View ArticleSNH releases research results on wind turbines and geese
Three new pieces of research released by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) this week will help with more accurate – and in some cases quicker and easier – assessments of whether individual wind farm...
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Seamus Heaney to be buried alongside lost three year old brother
In a poignant joining of a once broken circle, the Irish poet Seamus Heaney is to be buried tomorrow, 2nd September, at St Mary’s Parish Church in Bellaghy in County Derry, beside the three year old...
View ArticleHow do you write a tender and appoint a bidder when you know nothing about...
Argyll and Bute Council has just delivered a typical misaligned appointment in the award of a £20k tender for a consultant to deliver ‘a strategic action plan for the heritage, arts, culture and...
View ArticleSRSN Chair raises issue of Argyll evidence with Holyrood Education Committee
Chair of the respected Scottish Rural Schools Network [SRSN], Sandy Longmuir, has written to the Scottish Parliament’s Education Committee, raising the complex deceptions in the evidence given in...
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