Plaid Leader Attacks Bigotry and Racism

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE An attempt by a far right group to stage a rally on Anglesey last weekend was thwarted when a much larger peace rally was staged as a counter. The so called ‘Infidels of North Wales’ had scheduled the

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‘Crowdfunder’ To Raise Kennish Memorial Funds

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE More detail on the Kennish memorial project. The memorial stone will be quarried and carved here (in Foxdale) and then crated and shipped over to Skelmersdale before an international carrier will pick it up and ship it via

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Fuel Poverty: Comin ‘Sitting on their Thumbs’

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE I have responded to the reply from government about concerns about fuel poverty this winter suggesting that while they ‘research’ the issue people will freeze or get into deeper debt. In effect fuel poverty will lead to real

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Plans For Kennish Memorial Gravestone In New York

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE This weekends commemoration for significant contributors to Manx political and cultural life made me recall a ‘day school event’ I went to some years ago at the old teachers centre in Lord Street, Douglas. The late, Freddie Cowle

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Sophie Morrisons Contribution to Cultural Life Was Enormous

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Sophia Morrison’s contribution to Manx nationalism and cultural life was enormous and her death at a comparatively young age a great loss (link): https://www.celticleague.net/news/a-militant-manx-woman/ She did however inspire a small coterie of followers including the legendary Mona Douglas

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Irish Unity Inevitable – Salmond

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The former First Minister of Scotland on a visit to Ireland has said he believes Irish Unity is as inevitable as Scottish Independence. He told an Irish newspaper such political development could only happen in the future as

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Eisteddfod Time in Patagonia

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It’s that time of year when you have the Eisteddfod – no not in Wales but in the Welsh speaking community in Patagonia. There’s currently a series of articles from the Eisteddfod held earlier this month on the

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‘Home Where English Can Sound Like Arabic’

November 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It’s amazing to think that just a few years after the last native speakers of the Manx language had been recorded there was still a Welsh speaking monoglot community existing in Wales. The Manx recordings were vital in

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Fuel Poverty – Make Your Voice Heard!

November 27, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE We wrote earlier this month asking the Isle of Man Chief Minister what he intended to do about fuel poverty. This is a social distress factor that can only be exacerbated by the actions of OFT and Manx

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One of Your Money Laundry’s of Choice – Why?

November 27, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There’s an interesting article in the German magazine ‘Business Insider’ which says that the Isle of Man is 9 out of 10 on a list of favoured locations for criminal money laundering (link): https://www.businessinsider.de/britains-international-money-laundering-hotspots-according-to-the-treasury-2015-11?r=UK&IR=T Now for years the

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