Year: 2021

As Scottish fishermen angrily demonstrated in London yesterday over the fall-out from the UK government’s Brexit deal in Ireland agreement was announced between the Dublin and Belfast governments on reciprocity for fishermen on the Island of Ireland in respect of landings. The move

The Council of Europe body which monitors prison conditions and police and other custody situations (the CPT) has responded promptly to the concerns forwarded earlier this week by the Celtic League over the Sheku Bayoh case. Mr Bayoh died while being restrained by

The Celtic League have written to the CPT to highlight new evidence relating to the death in custody of Sheku Bayoh: “FAO: FRANCESCA GORDON Dear Ms Gordon I contacted the CPT on behalf of the Celtic League in May 2015 in relation to

This year is the 60th anniversary of the Celtic League, which was founded in Rhosllanerchrugog, Cymru/Wales in 1961. As the General Secretary of the League, Rhisiart Talebot, said at the time of our fiftieth anniversary in 2011: “It remains a politically active organisation

I read with interest an item on the Isle of Man Ship Registry Site that a new seafarers ‘welfare app’ has gone live which should enable over 10,000 crewmen on Manx flagged vessels to access information, get advice and communicate concerns; https://www.iomshipregistry.com/…/iomsr-seafarer…/ ‘Everything

‘While sparks fly between Ireland and Scotland over Rockall the operators of the Super Trawlers are rubbing their hands with glee as their floating factories sweep the seas’ Fishermen from Co Donegal are showing remarkable restraint. After the Greencastle based MFV ‘Northern Celt’

The dispute about the isolated outcrop of Rockall which to a certain extent has been ‘parked’ diplomatically for years is live again after an incident between a Donegal MFV and a Scottish Fishery Protection Vessel earlier this week. The Greencastle based ‘Northern Celt’

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