Month: January 2024

The mystery surrounding the death of SNP member and environmental campaigner Willie McRae almost forty years after his death has an enduring focus. It even inspired a crime fiction novel some years ago by award winning Scottish writer Ian Rankin. McRae was a

The great icon of Manx folklore Sophia Morrison is of course synonymous with the collection of folklore and dance and together with Mona Douglas ranks amongst the most immediately recognisable persons who were prominent in the movement in the early and (in Monas

The great Scottish nationalist Wendy Wood once famously remarked that ‘Nothing in the world has ever been gained without fanaticism’ certainly she was no stranger to controversy. Wood was an unlikely convert to the fight for Home rule in Scotland having been born

Report here from BBC (IOM) on the Illiam Dhone commemoration. One of the organisers Tom Callister is quoted: “Mr Callister said he had attended the annual service with his family since he was a child and it was “important to celebrate Illiam Dhone”,

Please add your voice to this petition against IOM Steam Packet tactics. The company issued dismissal notices to seafaring staff just before Xmas demanding they accept new terms on a ‘fire and rehire’ basis https://www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/stop-fire-and-rehire-at-steam-packet-1 Background here: https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/nautilus-calls-for-treasury-to-intervene-in-steam-packet-dispute/ Bernard MoffattAGS Celtic League (24th