News

Monday 31 October 2016

The RSPB has advertised for two Visitor Experience Officer posts for the West Light Seabird Centre for next season. The deadline is Friday 25th November, with interviews being held on Tuesday 6th December. More details here.

Monday 31 October 2016

Maarten van Hardenbroek from the University of Southampton sent us this message about their recent research work on the island:

Friday 21 October 2016

Rathlin stilt walkers will be starring in the Halloween festivities in Ballycastle on 31st October! See more detail on events in the town here.

Thursday 20 October 2016

All are welcome to attend a service to celebrate the life of Bess Cameron. This will take place on Tuesday 25th October 2016 in St. Thomas' Church, Rathlin Island at 11.45am. Everyone is welcome to join us afterwards in McCuaig's Bar for refreshment at 1pm

Tuesday 18 October 2016

NI Water will be coming over to the island to empty septic tanks as soon as there are enough households on the waiting list. Please ring 08457 440088 as soon as possible to get on the list.

Wednesday 12 October 2016

The latest Bulletin Board from the North Antrim Community Network is available here. This issue covers:

• NACN ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING INVITATION
• COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF PROTECT LIFE 2 – A STRATEGY FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
• GOOD GOVERNANCE AND CHARITY REPORTING SEMINAR
• BEREAVEMENT TRAINING
• YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS YOU! – FREE TRAINING

Monday 10 October 2016

The following message has been received from Bess's family.

Bess Cameron RIP
Lesley and Victoria wish to thank the Islanders for the love and support given to us at such a difficult time. This was the place our mother loved, amongst dear friends.

The cremation will take place on Tuesday 11th October at 1.30. There will also be a service of remembrance at St Thomas's Church on Tuesday 25th October, to which you will all be made very welcome.

Thank you so sincerely for everything.
Lesley, Victoria and all their family.

Friday 7 October 2016

Bess Cameron passed away early this morning. Our thoughts and prayers are with her daughters and all of the Cameron family at this sad time. Further details about the arrangements will be posted later.

Friday 23 September 2016

The RDCA, after experimenting with a satellite service from Avonline, has now gone with a phoneline business service from PlusNet for the Richard Branson Centre. This service is working well so far, with download speeds of 55.91 Mb/s and upload speeds of 8.31 Mb/s being recorded.

We have been told by BT, after a long period of trying to get services ourselves, and of trying to get information from them, that they are not currently planning on providing high speed services to business accounts on Rathlin.

Friday 23 September 2016

Minister Hazzard with representatives from the RDCA, Executive Departments and the Council in the stairwell of the Manor House.

On Wednesday 21st September, the Ministerial Forum met in the Manor House, chaired by Chris Hazzard MLA, Minister for Infrastructure. The meeting saw the launch of the Rathlin Island Action Plan 2016-2020.