Month: March 2021

Not that Celtic League would claim to be in such illustrations company as the ‘three great wonders’ featured here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56572775 However our submission (earlier this month) as part of the response to an invitation from UN (ECOSOC) to the 2021 UN High Level

Illustrated below is a screen shot of the National Archive pages. The UK National archives contain details of the use of CR Gas and other riot control agents including its deployment to N. Ireland in the 1970s. CR stocks (a highly carcinogenic gas)

The Ministry of Defence is still keeping under wraps files on the use of CR gas in Northern Ireland. CR gas is alleged to have been used by security forces against inmates at the prison compounds in Long Kesh in the North of

Former Scottish First MInister Alex Salmond has established a new pro independence party to fight for ‘list seats’ in the Scottish parliamentary elections. The current PR system used in Scotland disadvantages members of the SNP from achieving many list seats even if the

Women have always been at the forefront of the struggle for Irish Independence and no organisation epitomises that more than Cumann na mBan. Next week is the 108th anniversary of the founding of that organisation. Cumann na mBan was founded at Wynn’s Hotel

Irish Central has this news report and hour long video on Kathleen Lynn who fought against disease, poverty and oppression and was Surgeon General in Connolly’s Irish Citizens Army:. “Kathleen Lynn was born in County Mayo in 1874 into a wealthy Protestant family.

The RAF and RNAS Hawk T1 trainer fleet has been grounded. We reported earlier today on an accident involving the crash of one of the type in Cornwall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-56531788 The Hawk trainer has had a chequered history in RAF service a number of

A crash in Cornwall of a Royal Navy Hawk T1 jet trainer reminds of the risk posed by military activity across the Celtic countries and also the chequered history of the Hawk T1 jet which had a high attrition rate in RAF service

Following a few queries after our recent post about the Celtic League NGO status I thought I would post clarification. The Celtic League has been an accredited NGO for over a decade now (what is termed a roster status NGO of UN ECOSOC).

The Celtic League which is a (roster status) NGO of the United Nation (ECOSOC) was invited this week to make a submission to the 2021 (HLPF): “The Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Department of Economic