Month: June 2020

News from Shannonwatch: The item below is taken from the organisation Shannonwatch and published by them on 20th June 2020: “Ireland’s Membership of UN Security Council should be used to Restore our Credibility as a Neutral State The following letter from Shannonwatch member

With statue removing all the vogue (or statue defending) I was amused by this account of the removal of Queen Victoria from Leinster House in Dublin. Let’s face it that Victoria survived in Dublin until 1948 (26 years after the creation of the

Taking down statues that offend you is all the rage now but Irish Republicans were ahead of the pack when in 1966 (the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising) they blew up Nelson’s Pillar in O’Connell Street. The monument had been the

There were several notable clerics identified as involved in the most recent armed struggle against the British over the six counties. The most publicised perhaps was Father Patrick Ryan who turned up in the BBC NI series ‘The Troubles’. Fr. Ryan caused waves

Earlier this year (January) there was a suggestion in Ireland by the Dublin government that there should be a commemoration for those who served in the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitan Police. There was an immediate outcry because the RIC were

Welsh peace group Cymdeithas y Cymod is remembering this month the destruction of the Welsh speaking village and farming community at Epynt which was taken over (80 years ago) by the MOD in WW2 and never returned. Here’s an article about the issue:

BBC Scotland report that activists have started to rename Glasgow Streets identified with the slave trade: “Anti-racism campaigners have renamed streets in Glasgow city centre that have links to the slave trade.In several streets, signs with a black background and white font have

‘RTE reports on anti-racism protests across Ireland here: https://www.rte.ie/…/…/1145864-anti-racism-protests-ireland/ The demonstrations included a big turn out at the US embassy in Ballsbridge, Dublin. Bernard Moffatt Assistant General Secretary Celtic League (6th June 2020)

Welsh government Ministers have been making their views known in the current situation in the United States: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-52894966 Meanwhile Scotland’s First Minister says it’s ‘hard to not conclude’ that Donald Trump is a racist when asked about the President’s handling of George Floyd’s

The anger from the George Floyd death in the United States has spilled out globally and quite rightly. As this BBC report shows deaths of black men in police custody is not something unique to the other side of the Atlantic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52890363 In