Month: May 2020

News from YesCymru We have good News! The COVID-19 crisis has shown the people of Wales that we can govern ourselves better than Westminster. So far this month we have seen: Over a thousand new members Over 2,500 new followers on Facebook Over

Denying…freedom and suppressing minority…languages and culture is indefensible. “There is a crisis on the top of the world – literally. On the China-India border in the Himalayas the two sides are squaring up militarily. So far they’ve only been throwing rocks at each

Remembering Cesca Trench (Sadhbh Trinseach) who showed an artist’s brush could be as powerful as a rifle. Achill Island a crucible of nationalism who would have thought? Exploring North Mayo some years ago myself and the late ‘Mrs M’ entered a large pub

Carn 176 Spring/Summer 2020 the journal of the Celtic League is being distributed after a short delay caused by the Covid-19 crisis. Branch Secretaries should be circulating the latest issue to members as this notice is published. Details on how to subscribe to

‘People before Profits’ Madeleine Johannson has a video report here on how some business people are not only profiting from State handouts but partying during the Covid-19 outbreak and making light of it as people die.Youtube link (Rebel TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=DgjrdQfjiko&feature=emb_logo Related link -The

Report here from the Guardian newspaper about the chaos surrounding the application of Coronavirus laws in England and Wales which touches on how justice officials were anxious to please their political masters – sounds familiar: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/may/15/rushed-uk-coronavirus-laws-led-to-wrongful-convictions-say-police Meanwhile in the Isle of Man the

The publication Oceanographic has a report on Super Trawlers fishing in and around Marine Protected Areas in the last few weeks: https://www.oceanographicmagazine.com/news/supertrawlers-fishing-uk-sac/?fbclid=IwAR2h6IkCWKvVQp6hJfn2CBJnayGV-HPzg0klR5lf0OcFGtfCu0rSs57SqpU However this practice has been going on for some time as obviously the richest catches are to be found in or

Link here to a report on the Breton news site ‘7seizh’. It is a British Supreme Court ruling that found the internment of Gerry Adams in the 1970s was illegal and unlawful and there is a background where Adams explains the context and

ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR TO IRELAND TO BE BURIED IN MAYO“The Argentinian Ambassador to Ireland will be buried in Co Mayo later today. “Laura Bernal died suddenly in Dublin last month. “She is being buried in Foxford, in accordance with the wishes of her family,

We reported early on difficulties caused by the Covid-19 outbreak to the normal rotation of Ireland UNIFIL peacekeepers. The Irish Times reports on another small mission facing difficulties involving Defence Forces personnel stationed in the Congo. While the UN peacekeeping force in the