Month: January 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Our report on the film to be released this year (The Siege of Jadotville) on the Irish UN contribution to the Congo peace-keeping mission has provoked quite a bit of interest and an extremely good take up in

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE After this week a couple of things are clearer politically in Mann. Firstly the Chief Minister, Allan Bell MHK, unlike some well known supermarkets doesn’t offer a ‘rewards’ system and secondly if you have courted controversy in the

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE As part of our Celtic League Military Monitoring in 1982 we started to probe the proliferation of suspicious communications links between Ireland and the UK and also drew attention to the mysterious communications tower constructed at Capenhurst in

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Welsh Assembly have just given David Cameron a kick ‘where it hurts’ by voting to block the UK government’s trade union bill in Wales. Assembly members said it would undermine public services, the economy and the “constructive

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Here you go here’s David Cameron spelling it out. We are not a tax haven! Other countries maybe tax havens or have territories which are tax havens but no British territory or dependency is. https://www.whereyoucan.com/…/David-Cameron-IOM-not-a-tax-ha… Now David Cameron

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The United States Ambassador to Ireland recently visited Trinity College to view progress of a major project which will see four of the Library’s most important early medieval Irish manuscripts conserved, digitised and made available online to the

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A film to be released this year will celebrate the heroic defence by Irish UN peacekeeping forces of the town of Jadotville in Katanga (see link): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jadotville The peacekeepers, men of A Company, 35th Battalion of the Defence

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE As storms lash the Celtic countries from the South West of Ireland to the North of Scotland the Isle of Man to is battened down. If anything the New Year weather is even less predictable this year than

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Several items of Irish sport, music and folklore are to be considered for special UNESCO recognition and protection. Hurling, the Uilleann Pipes and the Irish folklore collection will be under scrutiny by the United Nations body. The issue

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Allen Moore is the International Relations Officer for Mec Vannin and Environmental Officer for Celtic League Mannin. In the article below he delivers an acerbic view of Mann’s new ‘trading partner of choice’ China following information he gleaned