History Repeats Itself: MoD Try to Expand Butec Range by Stealth

March 4, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE They say history repeats itself and that is certainly what appears to be happening in relation to the underwater test and evaluation centre (BUTEC) which is sited between Raasay and Applecross on the Scottish mainland. Two SNP MSPs

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Welfare Reform Doing Nothing is Not an Option Says Chief Minister

March 3, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Manx Chief Minister has said in relation to Welfare Reform that ‘doing nothing is not an option’. He was responding to a query from the Celtic League who had asked if the Government would consider an Island

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Celtic League AGM will Be held in Dublin in April

March 2, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League Annual General meeting will take place in Dublin on the weekend of 10th-12th April 2015. The venue for the meeting is the Headquarters of Conradh na Gaeilge, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2 (just off St

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Alarming Increase in Nuclear Safety Events on Clyde

March 2, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There has been an alarming increase in the number of ‘nuclear safety events’ at the nuclear submarine and weapons base on the Clyde. Questions from Scottish Nationalist Party, Defence spokesman, Angus Robertson MP have elicited the astonishing admission

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UK Military Recruitment in Ireland Opposed

March 2, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Following a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child about the recruitment by the British Armed Forces of children under 18 years of age the Celtic League has written to the Irish government

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The Celtic Countries Where They Rate in Press Freedom

March 2, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE THE CELTIC COUNTRIES WHERE THEY RATE IN PRESS FREEDOM With the Manx Press in the eye of the storm following criticism from Government Ministers of Adrian Darbyshire’s report for Isle of Man newspapers on ‘the coup that never

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UNCRC Asked to Press UK on Armed Forces Recruitment of Children

March 1, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has raised the issue of the recruitment of children below the age of 18 years by the British Armed Forces with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The UK has in the

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