Month: December 2016

FORMER Sinn Féin arts minister, Carál Ní Chuilín, has described as “disgraceful” and “a hatred of Irish” a decision by a government department to withdraw funding for an Irish language bursary scheme. Around 100 people a year received bursaries from the Líofa Gaeltacht

No Xmas break for the many Irish peacekeeping forces serving in a variety of roles as part of the wider UN global peacekeeping effort. There are currently 605 Military Personnel serving in fourteen different countries around the world. The biggest troop missions are

THE OECD, IMF AND EU not to mention some Nation States in Europe – not least France – are always calling on the off shore tax havens like Mann to clean up their act. We echo that view that’s why its ‘sticks in

As posted earlier the N. Irelands Children’s Commissioner responding to our query about the military cadet forces averred that her remit did not cover them because she said: “My founding legislation restricts my powers regarding reserved and excepted matters, including defence and armed

Probably the most iconic figure in terms of the Anti-Apartheid movement other than the iconic Nelson Mandela was Steve Biko. A student leader who went on to found the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) which empowered and mobilized much of South Africa’s urban black

I referred in an earlier post to a response from the NICCY about our query over cadet forces. In the response the Commissioner said: “My founding legislation restricts my powers regarding reserved and excepted matters, including defence and armed forces, and I have

We have received a response from the NICCY to our concerns about military cadet forces and the payment of monies to hush-up abuse cases by the MOD Our original query at this link: https://www.facebook.com/805941286121301/photos/a.806379472744149.1073741828.805941286121301/1166469213401838/?type=3 Text of response below: “Mr Moffat Celtic League 3

Just days after the documentary ‘Atlantic’ which highlighted the activities of super trawlers was broadcast by RTE cataloguing the damage that they are wreaking on the livelihood of local fishing communities we started tracking some of the largest of these vessels including the

News from the Mannin Branch Celtic League: With next year the centenary of the death of Sophia Morrison many events are planned and I posted detail recently of events in January being organised on a tri-partite basis by Celtic Congress, Mec Vannin and

Now underestimate the power of small interest groups that saying is true for Mann and for other Celtic countries as well. We reported earlier this week on attempts to introduce rent private sector reform n Ireland (link): https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1179130898802336&id=805941286121301&substory_index=0 However according to today’s Irish