Katie 
Today’s blog is, in the main, a book review – but I can’t conceive of any book that would come out of Lewis which could mean quite so much to this island. The book is ‘The Darkest Dawn: The Story […]
It has been a crazy time – absolutely crazy, with work. I’ve been running so many PR jobs lately that I’m like the proverbial plate spinner. It’s an interesting thing, self-employment, particularly when it’s all deadline driven. Every so often, […]
I was at the Runrig show in Stirling on Saturday night. I was there. Along with my husband and eight-year-old son, I was among the crowd of 25,000 at The Last Dance. I’m feeling a bit lost now but I’m […]
Back on familiar ground with today’s blog – wind farms. It’s a guest blog, though, and I am very pleased indeed to be able to share this piece with you, from none other than Alastair McIntosh, a man widely regarded […]
Solo ocean rower Niall Iain Macdonald, 44, has been rescued from his boat, ALBA, today (Friday) after his cabin was swamped and his systems started to fail during heavy seas. It’s been a terrifying ordeal – but he is “just […]
Adventurer Niall Iain Macdonald is more than a quarter of the way home in his epic NY2SY challenge, where he is attempting to row the North Atlantic solo, from the east coast of America to Stornoway. Niall Iain’s weather router […]
Niall Iain Macdonald continues to make progress in his NY2SY Solo North Atlantic Row – after a broken rudder threatened to end his challenge for good. Niall Iain’s boat, ALBA, sustained the damage on Monday night in heavy weather, leading […]
I’ve never had a response to a story like the one I had this past week, to the tale about Alex Dan – my uncle, who made history by undergoing the first lung transplant in Europe in a bid to […]
There are public stories and there are private ones. Very occasionally, the one story will be both. The story that I’m going to tell here is profoundly personal but also so well known among Leodhasaich of a certain generation that it’s […]
If you’re a Twitter user, or still read the papers, you’ve probably noticed that there’s a rising tide of anti-Gaelic feeling. I wish I could give you an explanation of why that’s happening now but I can’t – it’s beyond […]