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There was an Irish language protest last week at TCD Dublin: “The Trinity College Dublin Students Union (AMLCT/TCDSU) taped a banner reading “Cá bhfuil an Ghaeilge?” (Where is the Irish language?) to the Campanile. The action was taken in protest of College’s lack

On 3rd Oct. Omni Air N819AX on contract to the US military landed at Shannon about 0830am coming from Naval Air Station Norfolk in Virginia US. It took off again about 11.45am and flew on to land at Kuwait, and at Al Udeid

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

Just after 1am on 3rd December 1909 the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company’s vessel Ellan Vannin departed from Ramsey. The ship was under the command of Captain James Teare, a man with 18 years of experience with the company eventually reaching the

A surprising win in the Dutch General election for the far right Freedom Party of Geert Wilders. It’s a trend across Europe of the right making gains by peddling a populist message and trading on people’s fears – real or imagined. National parties