Websites

How connected are our politicians? Can you find them online? In real life?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on October 21, 2016, 9:26 am | Readers 785

CONNECTED POLITICIANS report examines the digital footprint of MLAs departing at the end of the last mandate, assessing their website and social media presence, and how well they update constituents with information about the political and constituency activity, as well how easily you can locate their offices and surgeries.

Castlereagh Council fails to keep their promise to publish council minutes online

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on January 5, 2011, 12:00 pm | Readers 22

I experienced a sense of déjà vu when I browsed across to the minutes section of Castlereagh Borough Council’s website. It was only in the aftermath of the Iris Robinson / Lock Keeper’s Inn cafe revelations this time last year that Castlereagh reversed its previous policy and started to publish its minutes online. I’ve blogged over on Alan in Belfast about Castlereagh’s online presence quite a few times over the past years. The council put out a press release on …

Welsh Language in the Heartland

Dewi on October 7, 2010, 4:14 pm | Readers 95

There is increasing evidence of the decline of the Welsh language as a lingua franca of areas traditionally thought of as Welsh speaking, coupled with a marked increase in the use of the language in more Anglicised areas. It’s a fairly easy phenomena to understand – as the % speakers fall below 75 to 70% it is normal for the languages of institutions such as the WI, Cricket Clubs, Young Farmers etc etc to change their primary language.