Month: April 2019

The Celtic League has asked the Irish government to press the UK on the alleged use of CR gas during disturbances at the Maze Prison in 1974. Files on what is termed ‘OPERATION PAGODA; use of CR gas’ fall due for access reconsideration

‘The issue of the transit of military personnel and munitions through Shannon Airport which support the US war machine in the Middles East (Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia) is seen as a breach of Irish neutrality and is the subject of a

Scotland’s Sunday Herald newspaper carries a story last weekend saying that the former Commander of the Force Research Unit (FRU) in N. Ireland, Gordon Kerr, is to be questioned by police involved in ‘Operation Kenova’: https://www.heraldscotland.com/…/17588042.officer-to-be-qu…/ FRU was the successor to “4 Field

Defacing a Welsh National symbol has backfired with copycat slogans appearing all over Wales (read on): “Cofiwch Dryweryn. These words – “Remember Tryweryn” – crudely scrawled on a wall near Aberystwyth in the 1960s, serve as a memorial for Capel Celyn, the Welsh-speaking

The Celtic League has written to the Irish government asking what steps it’s taken to respond to concerns voiced by the United Nations earlier this year about the exploitation of non EEA migrant fishermen on Irish fishing vessels. We have also asked if

 The Celtic League are following up on queries we made about abuse in the military cadet forces several years ago after it was revealed millions of pounds had been paid to hush up sex abuse cases. Two years after we highlighted the issue

Good feature article here from ‘Animals Australia for a kinder world’. We have for several years now been highlighting the danger to the marine environment posed by the ‘Super Trawler’ and this articles in five steps encapsulates succinctly all that it bad about

Ten years after Celtic League highlighted the dangerous nuclear legacy of the United Kingdom’s obsolete nuclear submarines the problem remains intractable according to a new critical report from the United Kingdom National Audit Office (NAO). The NAO say that no nuclear submarines commissioned

A United Nations report in August last year outlined that war crimes were being committed by the Saudis and their allies in the bombing of Yemen. Personnel from the Royal Saudi Air Force are (and have been) trained at RAF Valley on Anglesey.

A support fund has been set up by Veterans For Peace Ireland for US Veterans For Peace Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff, who have so far been prevented from returning to the USA pending their trial for a peace action at Shannon airport