Month: February 2019

A grainy photo of Scottish, Breton and Manx delegates (including myself and Mark Kermode) at the 2000 AGM of the Celtic League held in Ramsey. We adopted that year a resolution condemning the forced expulsion of the Chagos Islanders in 1969 and called

UK found guilty in International Court of Justice over Chagos eviction half a century ago. The fight of the Chagos Islander to be allowed to return to their homeland has received a major boost following judgement against the United Kingdom in the International

The attached photograph may look an idyllic image but life in the Isle of Man even sixty years ago was hard. The social justice introduced after the post WW2 reforms undoubtedly transformed life and what had been harsh environment for the old, the

Lounging in the sun on the bench at Eary Cushlin last Saturday it was hard not to think ‘god is in his heaven and all’s well with the world’. Blissful silence and in the distance the Mournes and Slieve Gullion poking out of

It’s not just in the Isle of Man that Industrial action beckons. In Ireland Nurses, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), recently announced that the will strike for an additional two days bringing the total of actions plans to three

Air traffic controllers working for Highlands and Islands Airport Limited (Hial) are being balloted on strike action in a dispute over pay. Controllers who are members of the Prospect union rejected a 2% pay offer made last year. The union said it was

When we reported plans in Ireland to phase out peat burning power stations and switch them to more sustainable biomass it seemed like good news. However Green News ie reports that US environmental groups are unimpressed: ‘The ESB said that the transition from

Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for postmen and women Mr Micawber’s wife Emma turns up played by Howard Quayle MHK. Emma’s (sorry Howard’s) maxim of course was that despite all his foibles ‘she’ would ‘never desert Mr Micawber’. Our modern

After the victory in the Irish High Court last month for An Taisce (The National Trust for Ireland) which effectively scuppered plans for oil and gas exploration in the Celtic Sea another pivotal case is in the Court. This time Friends of the

“The EU’s chemicals regulator has proposed a wide-ranging ban on microplastics that is expected to reduce 400,000 tonnes of microplastic pollution within 20 years. The ban, suggested by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA), is set to remove 36,000 tonnes of “intentionally added” microplastics