Five Years After We Highlighted This Issue Abuse of Migrant Seafarers Goes On!

Five Years After We Highlighted This Issue Abuse of Migrant Seafarers Goes On!

October 30, 2021

Exploitation of migrants on Irish Fishing Vessels is still an issue according to this report by the UK Guardian newspaper. The headline says abuse is ‘exposed’ but it was highlighted by Celtic League over five years ago (see links): “Racist insults, verbal abuse,

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Ireland; Maynooth University Migrant Fishermen Report (PDF Downloads at ITWF)

Ireland; Maynooth University Migrant Fishermen Report (PDF Downloads at ITWF)

October 30, 2021

More here on the migrant fishermen’s conditions report conducted by Maynooth University with funding from the International Transport Workers Federation (ITWF). The ITWF site has comment and also links to pdfs of the full report: https://www.itfglobal.org/…/new-research-confirms-irish… Our earlier post at this link: https://www.facebook.com/…/a.80637947…/4375675165814544/

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Fifty Years Ago a British Minister Formally Approved Torture in N Ireland

Fifty Years Ago a British Minister Formally Approved Torture in N Ireland

October 30, 2021

Fifty years ago the UK Secretary of State for Defence Lord Carrington approved torture as a means of the UK Security Forces extracting information from detainees. In August 1971 Brian Faulkner (then N Ireland Prime Minister) introduced internment without trial and men detained

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Fiftieth Anniversary of Cumman na mBan Deaths

Fiftieth Anniversary of Cumman na mBan Deaths

October 30, 2021

It’s the fiftieth anniversary this week of the death of the first members of Cuman na mBan to die in the troubles. Mother-of-four Maura Meehan (31) died along with her sister Dorothy Maguire when soldiers opened fire on a car in which they

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United Kingdom Day of Shame!

United Kingdom Day of Shame!

October 30, 2021

Chinese merchant seafarers were, the Liverpool Daily Post reported shortly after the end of WW 2, a “gallant body of men whose service to the Allied cause, through the Merchant Service, is greatly appreciated”. This sense of indebtedness and comradeship was sincerely felt

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Cymru: Commision Will Look At All Options Including Independence

Cymru: Commision Will Look At All Options Including Independence

October 30, 2021

A new Commission will explore all options for Wales including independence. Although Welsh nationalism has not enjoyed the same meteoric rise as Scottish nationalism recently that has changed. Independence (AUOB) protests attract growing numbers. Meanwhile polls suggest a gradual rise in support for

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Peace and Neutrality Alliance Comhaontas Na Neodrachta Agus Síochána

Peace and Neutrality Alliance Comhaontas Na Neodrachta Agus Síochána

October 30, 2021

Information shared from PANA: “Dear Member/Supporter, An “Irish Day of Solidarity with Julian Assange” will see a whole series of activities from Derry to Kerry in support of the imprisoned Australian journalist and publisher. It is organised by Free Assange Ireland in cooperation

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Cymru: ‘In the Middle of a Housing Crisis’

Cymru: ‘In the Middle of a Housing Crisis’

October 16, 2021

‘Greed not need driving the issue’ This article about housing in Cardiff highlights that like the other Celtic countries Wales is in the grip of a housing crisis. Cardiff City Council have unveiled plans for 4000 new social housing units but this will

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A Society Where Poverty Can be Impossible

A Society Where Poverty Can be Impossible

October 16, 2021

“On this day, 16 October 1854, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from Trinity College, Wilde left for Oxford and then London, where he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would,

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Film About Welsh Journalist Targetted By Putin Thugs!

Film About Welsh Journalist Targetted By Putin Thugs!

October 16, 2021

A film about the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who exposed the genocide in Ukraine in the 1930s has been stormed by masked men in a further sign of the crackdown on dissent by Russia’s new dictator Vladimir Putin. Nation Cymru reports: “Mr. Jones

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