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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Quiz in Furnace Village Hall on Friday 9th January (2009) ,
05 Jan 2009 in Community News
Robert Dunn is Question-master for Friday’s Quiz in the Village Hall at 7.30pm - so get ready for some surprises. Helen Brown and Marilyn Dunn are doing the tea - total immersion in the evening by the Dunn household.
This is the first Quiz after the New Year so everybody should be super sharp and raring [...]
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And Happy New Year, Callum Train ,
03 Jan 2009 in Community News
So - did he miss the action in the Furnace Inn at Christmas? And did he miss the Hogmanay Ceilidh in the Hall? Well - he can leave a message for everbody here, if he likes, in the Comment/Response box. Any bets Traino leaves us some rude remarks in French?
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Here’s a Furnace New Year spirit - and then some ,
03 Jan 2009 in Community News
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More trouble for Furnace Quarry operator Ennstone ,
30 Dec 2008 in Community News
Today (29th December) Ennstone Group, the parent company of Ennstone Thistle which operates Furnace Quarry, lost the services of non-executive director, Tim Ross, from its Board.
It’s never a good sign when the upper levels start to clear out - and this departure - announced without explanation - comes in advance of what the Group has [...]
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Great Furnace Website performance ,
30 Dec 2008 in Community News
Anyone searching for the Furnace website’s parent site - ForArgyll.com - by entering ‘for argyll in a search at google.com will now see Furnace For Argyll at No 3 in the list of search returns. Good PR for the village as people will have a look at it out of curiosity. Also the recent massive [...]
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This year Chris and Nora MacLean will be coming back to Glasgow, not Furnace… ,
29 Dec 2008 in Community News
With their existence in France stable, Chris and Nora MacLean have moved the Scottish part of their lives from Furnace to Glasgow. This doesn’t mean that they and the village will lose contact with each other. There’s too much shared history for that. But when they come back in the Spring it will be to [...]
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Now concerns about Lighthouse Caledonia’s intentions for Cairndow operations ,
18 Dec 2008 in Uncategorized
More bad news for Argyll and for people in Furnace who work up at Cairndow for Lighthouse Caledonia.
In a Press Release issued on is website on 16th December 2008, the company says that it is facing liquidity problems and that its Board has decided, until this situation is resolved, to freeze all payments due from [...]
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Bowls and Table Tennis Club arrangements over holiday ,
17 Dec 2008 in Community News
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Furnace Bowls Club
The Bowls Club has its Whisky Night in the Village Hall next Monday night (2nd December 2008) at 8.00pm. Legend has it that the one who drinks the most always wins. Trouble is, nobody can remember whether this is true or nor. Wonder why?
The Table Tennis Club has its last club night before [...]
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Ennstone, operator of Furnace Quarry, described as ‘troubled’ ,
17 Dec 2008 in Community News
Ennstone Thistle, current operator of Furnace Quarry, is described as ‘troubled’ and would seem from the evidence to be in a difficult financial position. It is looking at selling assets to meet cash obligatins in Britain adn the US. HOw this will affact Furnace Quarry is not yet know. Read the full story at ForArgyll.com
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Pub Quiz, Saturday 20th December ,
17 Dec 2008 in Community News& Events
[ December 20, 2008; 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. ] The Furnace Inn is hosting another Pub Quiz on Saturday 20th December 2008 at 8.00pm for an 8.30pm start as usual with Quizmaster John Mather on the microphone. So - team names at the ready…
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