For Argyll

… and is expecting a record of 20,000 spectators this year. Big attractions are the World Championships in Highland Dancing and the Cowal Pipe Band Championships, with Scottish bands faced with teams from America, Canada and New Zealand in a…

For those who couldn’t be there, For Argyll had a team at the Argyllshire Gathering in Oban today (well, yesterday now), so have a look at the splendid opening parade through the town on the way to Mossfield Park. Click on…

Mark MacDonald form Dumfries was tied with Neil Elliot from Helensburgh as they went into the final event at the Bute Highland Games in Rothesay. The Helensburgh man was looking all but invincible with a ‘two minutes past twelve’ caber…

Last night (Sunday 24th August) two men were found on the Isle of Bute, with their boat, after a major search managed by Clyde Coastguard who brought in Coastguard Rescue Teams from Dunoon and Rothesay; lifeboats from Tighnabruich and Largs;…

Argyll’s Cowal Gathering is the largest Highland Games in the world and this year’s games promises the greatest variety of entertainment yet. The heart of any games - the super-strong athletes tossing the caber and, here, putting the Cowal Stone, will…

There has long been concern at the scheduling of the Connect Festival at Inveraray for the weekend of 29th August, coinciding with the long established crowd-puller of the Cowal Gathering in Dunoon. It had been assumed that at least advantage would be…

In its hundred and fourteenth year, the 2008 Cowal Gathering, at Dunoon from 28th to 30th August, will see around 3,500 competitors from Canada, America and New Zealand. There will be huge audiences for, among many traditional sporting events, the…

[ August 27, 2008 to August 28, 2008. ]

The 2008 Argyllshire Gathering and Oban Games is at Mossfield Park in Oban. For details phone 01631 564354.

[ August 23, 2008; ]

The 2008 Bute Highland Games are at the Public Stadium in Rothesay, Isle of Bute. For details phone 01700 830610.

[ July 27, 2008; ]

The 2008 Luss Highland Gathering is at Luss Games Field in Luss on the shores of Loch Lomond. For details phone 01389 762854

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