Year: 2017

The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been visiting Irish UN peacekeeping troops in Lebanon. Irish Times report: “Taoiseach Leo Varadkar began his trip of the Irish peacekeeping troops in south Lebanon on Friday, visiting UN post 2-45, the main outpost for Irish Defence Forces

The initiatives to combat marine detritus are well publicised in Mann due to beach cleans which are now spreading globally. However the issue is also being tackled in the oceans themselves by bodies such as Kimo International that promote programmes like its fishing

SKELLIGS BEING TURNED INTO ‘DISNEYESQUE THEME PARK’ SAY AN TAISCE An Taisce (The National Trust for Ireland) has expressed concern at what it calls the rebranding as ‘Skellig Michael’ of the Kerry Coast as a ‘Disneyesque theme site’. The Skellig Islands are a

A report here by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (from Lorna Siggins in the Irish Times) highlights that exploitation on EU fishing vessels of migrant fishermen continues: https://www.irishtimes.com/…/migrant-fishing-crews-face-exp… Celtic League highlighted this issue over two years ago and subsequently wrote to the UK,

The BBC carry this report on the threat globally to bird life but I was particularly drawn to the section which said: ‘However, there has been a dramatic decline, particularly in Orkney and Shetland and on St Kilda in the Western Isles. “Some

A ceremony was held last month at Aberystwyth University to honour the journalist Gareth Jones who exposed the famine in the Soviet Union in the 1930s following Stalin’s forced collectivisation policy. The famine is estimated to have killed up to 10 million people.

The problems of plastic waste in the World’s oceans is plain to see. Much of the material which washes up on coasts is plastic, be it drinks bottles or much smaller fragments. Plastic is not biodegradable, and once it is in the sea

News from Yn Commeeys Celtiagh – Celtic League Mannin: One of this year’s anniversaries was that of the Windscale Fire of 10th October 1957. Because of the wind direction at the time, a radioactive cloud drifted across the Irish Sea, away from the

A ceremony took place in Athlone on December 2nd 2017 to honour Irish veterans of the UN Congo peacekeeping force that fought in the Siege of Jadotville. The event is one of a number this year which has hghlighted the long overlooked courage