Month: January 2021

Three super trawlers Afrika, Alida and Willem Van Der Zwan are presently in waters west of Ireland. This concentration of super trawlers has a catch and process capacity of up to 800 tonnes a day. Afrika is currently West of Co Galway (the

The Celtic League is an accredited non governmental organisation of the UN (Economic and Social Committee) ECOSOC. Manx branch secretary, Allen Moore, in this article welcomes the award of the Nobel Prize to its World Food Programme: “I switched on the radio at

Irish Times report here on the first Rosslare-Dunkirk freight sealink designed so Irish trucking forms can evade post Brexit chaos in the UK. A number of other direct services are planned: “With his lorry decked out with Irish, French and EU flags, truck

Bloavez Mat 2021 greetings sent from the Celtic League Breizh Branch.

Our colleague Gi Keltiek, one of the long standing members of the Celtic League Breizh branch, sends this colourful New Year greeting in the six Celtic languages from Keltik-Asso with which he is involved. Alastair Kneale, DOI Celtic League (6th January 2021)

The funeral for our friend, founder and teacher JJ is on 11th Jan 10am at Pentrebychan Crematorium Rhostylen. Cambria band will parade with him one last time by leading him and his family down the avenue to the doors. Due to Covid only

A small group gathered to commemorate the execution of Manx patriot Illiam Dhone at Hango Hill today. Mark Kermode of Mec Vannin gave a brief intro and another speaker was well known Manxman Stewart Bennet who is a member of both Yn Çheshaght

State papers released in Ireland have vindicated views published in the early 1990s by the Celtic League that the UK was militarily unable to defeat the IRA and it was struggling logistically to supply border strongpoints. A briefing note for Taoiseach Charles Haughey

The Guardian today reveals details on the political pressures surrounding the Róisín McAliskey case in the mid 1990s from new files released to the National Archives. The Celtic League was active in the campaign for her release and as General Secretary I wrote

It hasn’t even dawned but you know the New Year is going to be a year of political empty promises. It’s an election year and at least some of the current crop will try to get back. First they will try to convince