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Irish military, police and customs officers have seized a vast cargo of cocaine destined for Europe in a major operation in the Celtic Sea involving the Military, Police and Customs. The drugs on a Panamanian flagged vessel (MV Matthew) were due to be

The Chronicles of Man and the Isles are back in the news briefly courtesy of Manx Chief Minister Alf Cannan and John Wannenburgh MHK. They appear out of the mists of time periodically only to sink back into the oblivion of the vaults

Despite the fact the Chronicles of Mann were likely compiled in the Isle of Man, document the history of the Isle of Man in the crucial Norse period and were kept here for hundreds of years they are not ours says Chief Minister

A major air exercise concludes today in the United Kingdom. ‘Exercise Cobra Warrior’ has ranged over a two and a half week period since the 4th of September. In that time areas in Wales, Scotland and over the Irish Sea have borne the

Wendy Wood (29 October 1892 – 30 June 1981) was a great figure in the history of Scottish nationalism and a founder member of the National Party of Scotland which grew into the SNP. She’s typical of the heroic women in terms of

“Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!” (Walter Scott) From 1939 until 1951 the Calf of Mann was owned by the English National Trust. In 1951 they ‘rented’ it

There is a difference between separatism and secession. I suppose the most marked example of a national group carved off from their homeland by an arbitrary ‘treaty’ are the nationalist community of the North East of Ireland. The six counties were created to

The one issue that has caused discord and nationalist discontent for over fifty years in the Celtic countries is the question of inward migration, property prices and second homes. In Mann in the 70/80s there were arson attacks over the issue, In Cymru

In the past decade or so the main publicity in Europe has been on the aspirations of the Catalans and Scots to achieve independence. However there are a broad range of separatist groups from the Urals to the Atlantic. The wish of nations

Touring Western Ireland with my late wife Dee well over forty years ago we headed into Connemara. Late in the day and just fair enough past the bustle of Salthill we found a large but fairly quiet hotel called ‘Teach Furbo’ (if my