Comments on: What does the name Da Ablach on that shop in Castlebay actually mean?

By: Monkey Subsidy

Monkey Subsidy — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:27:13 +0000

Not only did the MP manage to get his eccentric epistle published, so eager were the editorial staff to please him they did not bother to do a spelling and grammar check! I look forward to the next mangled missive from my fellow Barraman for pure entertainment value.

By: Iain M Macdonald

Iain M Macdonald — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:40:30 +0000

Having now read MP Angus Macneil’s Stornoway Gazette letter,I believe I’ve solved the coded meaning behind those mysterious words on the Barra sign. It’s not a Gaelic translation that’s required but an English one.

DA ABLACH : Defiantly Argumentative Angus Brendan Laughs At Comhairle Hierarchy.

Though I’m not a great admirer of the Barraman,I nevertheless congratulate Mr Macneil on successfully sneaking his uncensored letter past the Gazette’s unforgiving PC editorial eye – a feat which I’ve never been able to accomplish despite my reasonably expressed views.

By: Monkey Subsidy

Monkey Subsidy — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:53:22 +0000

I guess there can be no adequate riposte to that statement from the MP!

By: Wha's Like Us!

Wha's Like Us! — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 10:50:49 +0000

And the last words for now from the pen of the MP-

“Eventually it dawns on the motorist (voter?) of the interdependence of all car ( UK) components ( Post Office, NHS specialist services, Transportation, Pensions, Defence, the list is endless…) on the other”

By: Bo-Dung

Bo-Dung — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:11:06 +0000

OK Scots Wha Hay, we get the message, bring back Kenny Flip!

By: Wha's Like Us!

Wha's Like Us! — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:52:49 +0000

And some more from the MP-

“This time we have the spectre of thinking akin to a motorist who throws away his starter motor from the car engine on basis he only uses it for five seconds every trip and it is not cost effective.”

And there’s more!

By: MadNeil

MadNeil — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:34:19 +0000

Google search returned “two wrecks” so unless there was a double ship loss sometime past,and origonal shop was constructed from the remains the only explanation would be a branzeer type prophecy that 2 acts of folly were to come the way of Barra and we can apply this to our time. If the hats fit….

By: Monkey Subsidy

Monkey Subsidy — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:59:41 +0000

Well worth the wait, the last paragraph is particularly funny, the MP makes the case for the Union, extolling the virtues of “interdependence”!

By: Wha's Like Us!

Wha's Like Us! — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:02:38 +0000

Ba, Ba, Ba Ba, Ba Baran and Iain Dubh, especially for you- another gem from the mighty pen of our MP-

“Whatever the trap of thinking amongst the majority of councillors reminds of a similar episode in the late 1980s, when there was reluctance by the then council to build a road to Rhenigidale in Harris as not many people lived there.”

More to follow……..

By: Iain Dubh

Iain Dubh — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:20:28 +0000

You mean he actually wrote a letter to the Gazette. Makes a change from him presenting a Commons .motion congratulating his beloved Celtic on some obscure anniversary