Ferryman’s job may be collateral damage of ethos in Eilean Eisdeal
[18.30 updated version] There are also community land ownership issues on the horizon.There is a man who has lived on Easdale for 11 years with his wife and 2 children, the youngest of whom goes to...
View ArticleCouncil supports Easdale Island ferryman
Argyll and Bute Council has considered the series of complaints by community company Eilean Eisdeal against the respected ferryman for Easdale Island at a meeting in Oban this afternoon.The meeting was...
View ArticleMore shenanigans as Easdale puts it on the slate
In a continuing stand off on Easdale Island, testifying to the troubled relations between the Eilean Eisdeal company and the landowner, a consignment of slate skimming stones from Easdale appears to be...
View ArticleEasdale gearing up to welcome RIB owners for 2013 RIB Rendezvous
In what is becoming a major feature of the marine leisure year in Argyll waters, Easdale is getting ready to welcome all RIB [Rigid Inflatable Boat] owners for the 2013 RIB Rendezvous.For those who are...
View ArticleEasdale Island dump on a deadline
There was a meeting on Easdale Island on 19th December 2012 with Argyll and Bute Council’s planning department and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency [SEPA].This was to discuss the materials...
View ArticleEilean Eisdeal Burns Supper
2013 is the 10th Eilean Eisdeal Burns Supper – on 2nd February – designed to follow in the footsteps of the previous years’ enjoyable evenings.For the event to be as successful as possible, it relies...
View ArticleEasdale Island dump: situation to be resolved by ‘change of use’ application
In the continuing issue of the unauthorised material dumped at the shoreside area of Easdale island known evocatively as the ‘Rush and Gush’, council planners met back in December 2012 with Eilean...
View ArticleNegotiations on Seafari Adventures’ proposed fuel facility at Ellenabeich
[Updated below 16th February] An issue has come up at Ellenabeich in Easdale which demonstrates the tightrope that has to be walked by both sides where a successful active enterprise exists in a small...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat still on search for sinking fishing boat
[Updated below 10.30 26th April] Oban Lifeboat remains involved in the search for the fishing boat, reported to be sinking to the west of Easdale Island.At 13:08 today, the crew of the Lifeboat were...
View ArticleMarine carnival time at Easdale – 2013 Easdale RIB Rendezvous
They call the Easdale Rib Rendezvous ‘ERR’ – maybe trying to be, err, modest about so full-on a fabulous spectacle.The 2013 ERR [full-on fabulous spectacle] is on 3rd, 4th and 5th May and already looks...
View ArticleEasdale Island emergency evacuation exercise identifies fixed link issue
Earlier this year this year, Argyll and Bute Council’s Civil Contingencies Manager held a very useful ‘table top exercise’ on Easdale Island, to co-ordinate protocols for the emergency evacuation of...
View ArticleGalley Aileach can be like this again – can you help?
Following Dee Rudiger’s article on the restoration of the replica highland galley, Aileach, here are some photographs of her in action in midway through the first decade of this century.On this...
View ArticleCouncillor Semple clarifies the communications issue on Easdale and Luing...
Argyll and Bute Council’s Infrastructure Spokesperson, Councillor John Semple, has helpfully clarified the issue over officers communications with the slate islanders over recent changes to the...
View ArticleEasdale Island Burns Supper
2014 is the 11th Eilean Eisdeal Burns Supper, set to follow in the footsteps of the previous years’ enjoyable evenings.The event – in the unique Community Hall on the island and om Saturday 1st...
View ArticleCouncil puts employee on notice in major breach of its own policy on...
As is commonly known, the island of Easdale is a deeply divided community. For Argyll has researched and reported on this previously and it is too tedious to rehearse again.This factionalism, with one...
View ArticleIndictment of council handling of Easdale junta’s serial abuse of ferrymen
For Argyll has been working through several dossiers of papers in relation to the persistent harrassment and abuse by an unrepresentative local junta of a series of ferrymen employed by Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleMonty Halls at Easdale Island Hall tomorrow
Tomorrow – Friday 23rd May at 6.30pm in Easdale Island Hall, Monty Halls, whose television series featuring exploration, adventure, challenge and wildlife, is giving a presentation. The little ferry...
View ArticleAfter 14 years Tiree will have a Community Council but can it speak with one...
And no, the Tiree Community Council has not resigned in its entirety to bring about this situation. They’ve just not needed to have a Community Council for fourteen years.The islanders’ habit of...
View Article2000th shout today for Oban Lifeboat – to a diver with suspected bends
Oban Lifeboat was requested by Stornoway Coastguard this afternoon, 12th July, to launch to pick up a diver from his mother ship, Sound Diver. between Oban and Easdale Island.The diver had surfaced...
View ArticleTonight: Summer Salon Easdale photography event
Tonight, 16th August, Eilean Easdeal is hosting a free event at Easdale Island Community Hall – 745pm to 945pm – showcasing work by contemporary photographers.Document Scotland is presenting their...
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