Month: September 2018

Earlier this month a Basque campaigners demanded answers to the issue of political activists who disappeared in Spain and France over the past over forty years. August 30th is International Day of the Disappeared. This report (originally from Mediabask) from Breton site 7seizh:

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has produced an in depth report citing the need for change in relation to human rights implementation in An Garda Síochána (the Irish Police). The report by Alyson Kilpatrick a human rights advisor to the PSNI (the

A former head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and long time participant in Irish Army UN peacekeeping operations Major General Michael Beary has been presented with the Distinguished Service Medal by the Irish government. During the ceremony at Cathal Brugha

Ireland’s Department of Defence has issued a statement text below following the latest UN deployment in the Middle East: “The Minister with Responsibility for Defence, Paul Kehoe T.D., has welcomed the successful completion of the relocation of Irish Defence Force personnel deployed with

Manx Radio have an item today about plastics pollution in the Irish Sea. However the question of pollution is more complex and these waters have been used for the disposal of all manner of toxic items from munitions, radiation waste and domestic and

Breton language activist group AI’TA! is to cooperate with reunification campaigners of 44=Bzh over bilingual signage in Loire Atlantique. Bilingual signage is now being placed in Brittany but Loire Atlantique which was hived of from historic Brittany is not included in the bilingual

‘Amnesty Ireland call for investigation to establish if human rights abuses occurred’ Large crowds of people have protested in Dublin about the action of Police and a Security firm to evict homeless protesters. The mainstream media (msm)reported two hundred people but as usual

  More than a few raised eyebrows in Ireland as new Garda boss Drew Harris told recruits last week to be ‘honest coppers’ and show ‘empathy’.Harris himself comes from a background in the RUC and PSNI and there are enough skeletons in the

Balaclava clad members of An Garda Síochána (the Irish Police) have brutally evicted homeless protesters from a house they were occupying in Frederick Street Dublin. The police secured the area for a group of private security men, also masked, who evicted those in

We’ve enjoyed a record summer in these Islands so is it global warming? Who knows the jury is out. What is not in doubt is that winter sea ice in the Arctic has seen record lows for the last several years. The changed