Month: January 2020

Poor Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan have had a rough fortnight of it. Since they announced in early January that the state was holding a commemoration for the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Dublin Metropolitan Police, and the Black &

A controversial decision by the Fine Gael government to have an official commemoration for the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police has been scrapped. The Irish Justice Minister was to have attended the commemoration in an official capacity and it was to

Irish Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan TD and his insatiable desire to embrace the memory of the RIC lead me unpredictably on ‘a Gaelic odyssey’. I wrote about W B Yeats poem ‘Reprisals’ in which he writes a second eulogy to his former friend

The search has continued today for the missing fisherman of the trawler Alize which sank off Wexford but hopes are fading not least because of the appalling weather conditions overnight this video clip shows the Dunmore East lifeboat one of a number involved

The news link we posted to the concern about ‘recognizing’ (or commemorating) the RIC and Dublin Metropolitan Police generated a large degree of interest so I thought I would post this item by RTE that takes an in depth look at the RIC

A large search and rescue operation is underway for the missing crew member of a fishing vessel which sank in the North Celtic Sea off Wexford earlier. This is a map update (just after 2:00 pm today) which shows local fishing vessels, a

The Xmas break is over and super trawlers are active again off the Shetlands and in the Channel. Off Shetland four of the worlds largest including the Annelies Ilena and Willem Van Der Zwann. This report at Blue Planet: https://www.facebook.com/…/a.22054575798…/2690111614358793/… Image: The 9500

A protest march for Scottish independence is set to be the largest yet according to organisers the cross party group All Under One Banner (AUOB); This report from The National newspaper: https://www.thenational.scot/…/18137977.weekends-independe…/ Bernard Moffatt, Assistant General Secretary Celtic League (5 January 2020)  

One crew man has died and another is missing as a scallop fishing vessel sinks in the North Celtic Sea. A search is ongoing but conditions are set to worsen in the area in the next twenty four hours. These reports from RTE

Today, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited Cobargo, a town in the south-east of the state of New South Wales, where a father and son died on Monday trying to protect their property when it was hit by the massive fires which have