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Countess (Constance Georgina) Markievicz (whose birthday it is today) was an unlikely revolutionary let alone socialist and suffragist. Born into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy the Gore Booths had a palatial home and estate at Lissadell in Co Sligo. It’s fair to say that Countess

A Night Carnival for Assange is to be held on Saturday 11 February 2023. This will be followed by a rally in the Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, Westminster, SW1P 3DW. Speakers will include Stella Assange, Ben Westwood, Kristinn Hrafnsson, Richard Ratcliffe and Jeremy

All Under One Banner Cymru and YesCymru have announced their first March for Independence of 2023 will be held in Swansea on May 20. Marchers are encouraged to meet from 11.30am on Saturday 20th May at Wind Street Swansea with the march leaving promptly

Living on an Island can be paradise but sometimes the day to day practicalities of health care, housing transport etc intrude. Excellent article here at ‘NOTEWORTHY’ looks at a series of Irish islands. From Arranmore off Donegal, via Clare Island off Mayo to

One assumes that to be appointed the Ambassador of a large power you have to have some degree of intelligence and education however when it comes to neutrality, history and World War 2 the Russian Ambassador to Ireland seems somewhat challenged. In an

Great article at Phillipe Argouarch’s site BRITTANY NEWS about a sighting of another wolf in Breizh near Lannion: “After more than a century of absence, the last wolf seen was killed in 1913, the wolf is back in Brittany! On May 4, 2022,

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the loss of the Irish Sea ferry Princess Victoria in the North Channel with the loss of 133 men, women and children. Through the valiant effiorts of the Royal Nabvy, several Merchant Navy vessels and a number

Next month marks the sixtieth anniversary of the bombing of the construction site at Tryweryn Dam in Wales on 10th February 1963. The action was carried out by Owain Williams a founder member of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (MAC) probably the most effective of

A new permit scheme will give non-EEA migrant fishermen the same rights as EU crew members has been announced in Ireland. It has been welcomed by the Irish Fish Producers Organisation. The Celtic League started campaigning on this issue seven years ago after

The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Mary Lawlor, has spoken about the difficulties facing human rights defenders globally. She said: “I look back on 2022 with a mixture of admiration for those brave human rights defenders who have refused to be silenced,