New Portree Youth Club set to launch
A new youth club is set to launch tonight (Friday 24th September) at the Skye Camanachd shinty clubhouse in the island capital. The Portree Youth Club had originally been earmarked…
Skye activists slam “speculative” holiday-let campaign
Skye campaign group Iomairt an Eilein has this week expressed its disappointment at “speculative material” distributed by a holiday accommodation company which it believes only contributes to excessive houses prices…
Skye actor at the heart of BBC’s submarine drama Vigil
LORNE MACFADYEN is an actor from Skye currently starring in one of the BBC’s biggest drama series of the year. KEITH MACKENZIE caught up with him to find out more.…
GLORY GAME: Kinlochshiel lift shinty’s Camanachd Cup for the first time
Kinlochshiel put a new name on the Camanachd Cup – and capped a day that will go down in local folklore forever – by beating Lovat 3-1 in a thrilling…
Camanachd Cup Final countdown: Shinty showcase returns – with a new cast on stage
In the 125 years since shinty’s Camanachd Cup was first contested only the two wars had ever stopped the competition in its tracks – before Covid-19 came among us. So…
The 2021 Isle of Skye Half Marathon in photographs
On Saturday, more than 300 competitors took part in the 2021 Isle of Skye Half Marathon which returned following a break in 2020 due to the pandemic. Free Press photographer…
Duke and Duchess given warm Highland welcome during Isle of Skye visit
The Duke and Duchess of Rothesay were serenaded with a Gaelic song during a visit to the Isle of Skye on Thursday. The Duke and Duchess, who were visiting Skye…
HEBRIDEAN HISTORY: Families reunited by the sound of a voice
Flòraidh Forrest, project director for Tobar an Dualchais, on what archive recordings have told her about her own family and with it the social history of South Uist, Eriskay and…
SYSTEM FAILURE: Crofts market branded “out of control”
The market in crofts is “completely out of control” and the Crofting Commission is failing to address the crisis in “any meaningful way”. Those were the words of Donald MacKinnon,…
FROM FOUR HOMES TO 800: Lochalsh and Skye housing chief calls time after 35 years
ADAM GORDON, spoke to Lachie Macdonald about retirement and a legacy of affordable housing expansion in Skye and Lochalsh. “I’ll miss the people, they are absolutely splendid,” those were the…