Month: August 2019

I get an email from the Irish Red Cross to say they are having a series of events next month to mark their 80th anniversary and also remark that this year is also the 70th anniversary of the (4th) Geneva Convention which is

Alastair Kneale, Celtic League Director of Information, highlights some aspects of resolutions adopted at the recent AGM and particularly the Saudi pilot training issue in this piece on Manx Radio: https://www.manxradio.com/…/celtic-league-redoubles-oppos…/… The League says Kneale will continue its efforts as part of a

Link here to the site global forest watch which gives not only in depth statistics on the current massive fires in Amazonia but also globally including the recent fires in Siberia and the Arctic. http://fires.globalforestwatch.org/home/ Sobering stuff it kind of puts Manx Chief

The Celtic League have written to the IAEA (Acting) Secretary General Cornel Feruta asking if the UN nuclear safety agency endorses a decision of the UK ONR to relax safety rules to allow Hunterston Power Station to be restarted: “The Acting Secretary General

The UK Nuclear regulator the ONR is to allow Hunterston B nuclear power plant to restart. The plant had been taken out of service because of cracking in the reactor core. However astonishingly the decision is not because the reactor is now repaired

A Donegal Councillor has refused to condemn those who daub English language translations on road signs in the Gaeltacht Independent Councillor Micheal Mac Giolla Easbuig told breakingnews.ie: That he feels it is ‘direct action’ in support of the language and the very future

So what has the demonstrations by Irish Beef Farmers during late July and August got to do with the fate of the Amazon Rainforest. More to the point why are the Socialist Left in Ireland aligning themselves with the plight of small farmers?