Month: May 2016

A crab boat which sank with the loss of three lives of the Hebrides has been raised by the MAIB so that it can gather a clearer picture of why the vessels foundered. The Louisa sank on 9 April as it lay at

Frongoch is a village in Gwynedd north Wales. It is located close to the market town of Bala. It was the home of the Frongoch internment camp, used to hold Irish Republican prisoners from the 1916 Rising.  There were approximately 1,800 Irish prisoners

Well over two decades ago I wrote a pamphlet for the Celtic League called ‘Human Rights on the Celtic Fringe’ it documented rights abuse in all the Celtic countries and in one section highlighted the plight of the ‘Irish Traveller’ community. Since that

It is a sobering thought that even before mankind understands the full diversity of the worlds oceans many unrecorded species will be wiped out. We have highlighted the damage being wrought by industrial fishing by super trawlers and this prompted one commentator to

We’ve highlighted in several recent posts how the marine eco-system and wildlife within it are under threat. Paradoxically as fish stocks and marine mammals have struggled to overcome with legacy issues such as toxic pollution and more current threats posed by military exercises

We can report that one year after what was described as a historic International ruling to curb the activities of the so called monster trawlers from devastating fish stocks and displacing the livelihood of indigenous communities the EU has still not acted to

Even as the fishing community were sitting down yesterday evening in Burtonport, Donegal, to see a premiere showing of the film ‘Atlantic’ made by Irish documentary film maker Risteard Ó Domhnaill the problem the film highlights was being exacerbated. In the film, which

Irish documentary film maker Risteard Ó Domhnaill who became famous for his film ‘The Pipe’ which documented the struggle of the people of North Mayo against the decision to site a gas refinery onshore in the area has produced another groundbreaking film. ‘Atlantic’

It seems that the United Kingdom may be casting its eyes from the North Sea into the near Atlantic in search of oil and minerals to exploit if this story from today’s NATIONAL newspaper is anything to by: https://www.thenational.scot/…/aberdeen-university-gets-gran… There is of course

I was interested to have contact with and get information from campaigners in Wales concerned about nerve gas stored following WW2 at a quarry earmarked for a hydro-electric plant. Their Freedom of Information request over possible contamination at the Glyn Rhonwy site near