‘Outlaw Ocean’ Murder Video: How Can You Sleep Easy ILO Asked

July 31, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE ‘OUTLAW OCEAN’ MURDER VIDEO: HOW CAN YOU SLEEP EASY ILO CHIEF ASKED The Director General of the ILO has been asked how he or any other Official of International bodies regulating conditions for seafarers can rest easy after

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IMO Urged to Investigate ‘The Outlaw Ocean’

July 31, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has written to the Secretary General of the IMO urging the body to take urgent action to investigate a wide range of concerns raised by a series of articles published in the New York Times.

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Tabloid Sneering Is No Threat to Cornish Language

July 31, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE In typical sneering and Anglo centric style the Mirror newspaper reported this week on a decision to put dual signage on all Cornish Police Stations. One would have hoped the Mirror would have seen the value of the

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MI5 – They’re All Heart! They Even Run a Charity

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Our report on the Intelligence Commissioners Report (IC) earlier this week in which we expressed some scepticism about how open to control and scrutiny the British Security Services are may have to be revised. The IC had written,

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Theresa Keeps MI5 on a Tight Rein – How I Laughed!

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Intelligence Services Commissioner says in his most recent report that the Northern Ireland Office and its Secretary, Theresa Villiers, take ‘great care when considering requests from the counter-terrorism agency’ for surveillance warrants. He also went on to

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Scotland: Mundell Gets Stormy Welcome at Foodbank

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Angry protesters demonstrated when Conservative Scotland Office Minister, David Mundell MP, (Scotland’s sole Tory Westminster MP) turned up to open another Foodbank in the town of Dumfries this week. Those who gathered to ‘greet’ the Minister were annoyed

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Nama: Tangled Web Gets More Complex

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Private investigators probing the NAMA (Ireland National Management Agency) scandal are said to have indentified several politicians from a number of political parties in Ireland who could be involved in the affair. The issue surfaced following allegations in

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Scotland: Social Justice Secretary Hits Out Over Child Poverty

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Scottish Government Social Justice Secretary, Alex Neil MSP, has hit out at the UK governments decision to redefine child poverty saying that tens of thousands of children will suffer as a consequence. He told Scottish media: “By changing

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Adams Death Threat Man Charged

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A former reservist with the British Army has been charged against the Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams. Mr Adams a member of the Irish Parliament, the Dail, has a home in Belfast. It is understood that police were

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Salmond: Another Referendum Inevitable

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Former Scottish First Minister says a second referendum on Scottish independence is inevitable. Speaking on the BBC ‘Andrew Marr’ Sunday morning political slot the former First Minister said that several factors might trigger such a referendum however he

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