Month: June 2017

Tax justice campaigner Richard Murphy sets out a powerful case for Scottish independence in this film as part of the ‘Journey to Yes’ series. It’s lengthy just over 30 minutes but well worth a watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8trs8mGhk BERNARD MOFFATT Public Relations Officer Mannin Branch

The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has stepped in to help women seeking abortion which are proscribed in N Ireland access facilities in Scotland: https://www.express.co.uk/…/Nicola-Sturgeon-abortion-SNP-No… A Supreme Court this week said that women from N. Ireland could not access NHS facilities in

Our colleagues in the Gaelic League whose HQ in Dublin the Celtic League has used on many occasions to host our Inter-Celtic AGM have issued a strong statement criticising what they say is an attempt by the Irish government to downgrade the status

There’s a smattering of Iberia in the west-Kerry gaeltacht and some say it wouldn’t take too much digging to find traces of a few fired clay castanets. Dingle merchants were said to be so familiar with Spanish kingdoms in the Middle Ages that

News from Mannin Branch Celtic League Sticking with the book review theme – chewing the cud over a pint ‘or three’ yesterday evening with the Celtic League Environment Officer and enthusiastic bird-watcher (feathered variety), Allen Moore, we meandered over a range of topics

It will be fifty years next March since the crash of Aer Lingus Viscount Airliner EI712 ‘St Phelim’ in a still inexplicable tragedy off the Wexford coast. All sixty one people on board – two pilots, two air hostesses and 57 passengers died.

NEWS FROM THE MANNIN BRANCH CELTIC LEAGUE There is a febrile atmosphere in the United Kingdom as the Conservatives fall short of a majority in their election but attempt to patch together a working administration with the Democratic Unionist Party in the North

“The monumental landscape around Teamhair na Rí or the Hill of Tara in County Meath features several springs closely associated with stories and traditions from early Irish literature and history. Of these sacred or holy wells probably the best known is Tiobra Bó

The Celtic League have written to the CPT about reports of a lice infestation at one of the main police stations in N. Ireland asking them to remind the British government that prisons, police stations and other places of detention should meet the