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STEVE FINAN: How I expect local leaders to respond to Dundee Raac crisis

STEVE FINAN: How I expect local leaders to respond to Dundee Raac crisis

'Safe homes in Dundee and an equitable outcome for Dundonians is more important than you being chummy at party conference time.'

20.03.2025 40

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STEVE FINAN: Silence ultras at Dundee derby to bring back proper noise

"Ultras would squeal for mummy if subjected to what old Shed and Derry boys experienced when a much-desired goal went in."

12.03.2025 5

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STEVE FINAN: What have Dundee councillors done to earn pay rise?

'An above-average pay award must be the result of above-average performance.'

27.02.2025 10

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee councillors must be as vocal about East End Campus negatives as positives

Dundee City Council will hail East End Campus as a new jewel in the city's crown, but they must be as vocal about the bad news, like the loss of...

19.02.2025 2

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STEVE FINAN: Will Magdalen Green footbridge even connect active travel in Dundee?

Residents were presented with a solution, but never consulted on what problem this new bridge is trying to solve.

15.02.2025 10

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STEVE FINAN: Council chief demeaned himself and job title with Dundee Olympia response

'Do you really think anyone is impressed by that?'

06.02.2025 3

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STEVE FINAN: Dens Park is part of Scotland’s real history – it deserves better preservation

Our columnist asks why the National Trust for Scotland is seemingly only interested in preserving the heritage of the elites - and the NTfS has...

30.01.2025 4

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STEVE FINAN: Free youth bus travel has created thugs on tour culture in Dundee

"I heard of a bingo player continually squirted with a water pistol on a bus, who was so frightened she got off several stops early."

22.01.2025 4

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STEVE FINAN: My radical solution to council bureaucracy and tribalism in Dundee

One reform that might help is to ban political parties. Give us independents only.

16.01.2025 10

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STEVE FINAN: My open letter to Broughty Ferry residents about your castle

'People might not agree with what you’ve done, but at least they’ll understand why you did it.'

12.01.2025 20

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STEVE FINAN: My Dundee Sunday Welfare League memories 40 years on

It’s 2025 – exactly 40 years since the formation of my old football team Bank Street Albion, who played in the Dundee Sunday Welfare League. I’d...

02.01.2025 8

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STEVE FINAN: My verdict on Mark Flynn’s Caird Park comments – and what council leader appears to have forgotten

You’re kidding, Mark Flynn. Your response to the Cairdy golf disaster is to suggest a private outfit runs it. “If anyone is interested in doing...

12.12.2024 10

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STEVE FINAN: What I learned from watching council meeting that sealed fate of Caird Park golf course

Cairdy golf hasn’t had a fair rub of the green. I’ll tell you exactly why. Responsibility for municipal courses was transferred from Dundee City...

05.12.2024 4

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee councillor deserves credit for publicly backing Dark Blues’ Riverside training ground

Having last week criticised Dundee councillors as fearties who never express opinions, I must give credit where it is due and praise councillor...

20.11.2024 6

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee deserves better than a council full of fearties

A couple of days ago we passed the midway point in the five-year cycle of local council elections. What might Dundee City Council’s half-term...

13.11.2024 4

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STEVE FINAN: Don’t let political correctness stop Tayside kids being kids

A huge wooden play fort is to be built at Brechin Castle Centre. Brilliant! I thought such things were lost to our politically correct society. If...

06.11.2024 5

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee Olympia inquiry secrecy is arrogant complacency

Dundee City Council stumbling at the first fence of the Olympia inquiry doesn’t augur well. If basic details in advance are shrouded in secrecy and...

23.10.2024 3

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STEVE FINAN: Council must force action on crumbling Dundee tenements

When you’re in town, not just the centre but any street where there are older buildings, do you look up? In places there are weeds, grass, bushes –...

16.10.2024 10

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STEVE FINAN: The travesty at the heart of Dundee council by-elections

The SNP took both seats in last week’s Dundee council by-elections – that’s a pity. All the other candidates of all the other parties, I...

09.10.2024 10

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee still suffering 30 years after shameless land grab

This is the second anniversary of this column. Just as in my first week, and first anniversary, I’m complaining again that Dundee’s boundaries are...

03.10.2024 2

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STEVE FINAN: No excuses if Dundee East End school site floods again

With Europe and England battered by rain, and the anniversary of Storm Babet coming up, my thoughts return to the £100 million East End Campus...

25.09.2024 3

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee student flats are great, but where will everyone else live?

My father’s childhood home was a tenement in Gellatly Street, where the car park now is. My mother was pan-loafy, she was from South Tay Street....

18.09.2024 3

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STEVE FINAN: GB Energy Dundee snub is our own fault

It looks like Dundee won’t be the venue for the HQ of Labour’s much-trumpeted GB Energy. What a surprise. It hasn’t been announced officially but...

11.09.2024 4

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STEVE FINAN: Latest Olympia revelations make Leisure and Culture Dundee look like an utter shambles

Staff at Dundee’s Olympia Centre had to be hosed down after the toddler pool was “super-dosed” with dangerous levels of chlorine. I shake my...

05.09.2024 3

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STEVE FINAN: I expect Dundee United to exploit opportunities created by Dens Park closure

Being interested in football stadiums, I look forward to Dundee FC’s new Camperdown ground. However, is this project being done in a way that’s...

22.08.2024 4

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STEVE FINAN: I’m impressed by Mark Flynn’s promise to stand up for Dundee – but here’s 3 things he must do

I welcome Mark Flynn as leader of Dundee City Council and wish him every success. I also send my respects to the departing John Alexander. John...

15.08.2024 4

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STEVE FINAN: I will remember new council leader Mark Flynn’s promise to stand up for Dundee

I welcome Mark Flynn as leader of Dundee City Council and wish him every success. I also send my respects to the departing John Alexander. John...

15.08.2024 2

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STEVE FINAN: I will remember new council leader Mark Flynn’s promise to stand up for Dundee

I welcome Mark Flynn as leader of Dundee City Council and wish him every success. I also send my respects to the departing John Alexander. John...

14.08.2024 2

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STEVE FINAN: My message to Dundee glory hunters who travel to Glasgow to support Celtic and Rangers

The Dundee derby at the weekend had everything. It was exciting, engaging, with great football. A fabulous advert for the city. This is a football...

08.08.2024 2

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STEVE FINAN: Hard truths Dundee can learn from Perth Museum – before we make V&A mistake again

I try hard to like Dundee’s V&A, I really do. I try not to think how much more dramatic the building would have been if they’d carried out the...

05.08.2024 1

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STEVE FINAN: Hard truths Dundee can learn from Perth Museum – before we make V&A mistake again

I try hard to like Dundee’s V&A, I really do. I try not to think how much more dramatic the building would have been if they’d carried out the...

01.08.2024 3

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STEVE FINAN: Dundee bus service axe a reminder of council malaise

Dundee City Council doesn’t have to be run the way it has been since the Scottish local elections of 2017. The council clearly has a policy of non-...

25.07.2024 1

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