The BIC Achieving Nothing and Going Nowhere

December 15, 2010

As the British Irish Council met on the Isle of Man this week the organisation was described as having an important role by the Isle of Man press. Meanwhile Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness also weighed in telling a local

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League Convenor Gets Broadcast Slot

November 27, 2010

The Convenor of the Celtic League featured on an Irish language radio station Sunday, in what will be a weekly slot for him. Cathal o Luain was interviewed by Eire branch secretary, Caoimhín Ó Cadhla, who is a radio DJ for the Dublin

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AGM Voices Concern About Irish Prison Conditions

July 25, 2010

The Celtic League has reiterated its concerns about overcrowding of women’s prisons in Ireland and a resolution to this effect was adopted at the League AGM, held on the Isle of Man, this weekend. The League first made representations about the issue when

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Ireland: Opposition To Visit By English Queen Grows

July 23, 2010

Kerry Sinn Féin (SF) TD Deputy, Martin Ferris, is the latest of a number of political sources in Ireland to voice opposition to the prospect of a State visit to by the British Queen, Elizabeth II. Ferris described the proposed royal visit as

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Call For Stolen Banner To Be Returned

May 14, 2010

A non-political pressure group is calling for the Imperial War Museum in London to return the banner of the Irish Republican youth movement, Na Fianna Éireann, which was stolen by British Army troops looting homes in Ireland following the 1916 Easter Rising. The

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Dublin Plane Explosives Report Secret

May 14, 2010

The Irish public will not be told the result of an enquiry into how explosives were carried on a domestic airliner flying from the Slovak Republic to Dublin earlier this year. The explosives went undetected and were eventually recovered by Irish police at

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MAGHABERRY: GMC RESPOND OVER DOCTORS ROLE IN DISCIPLINARY PROCESS 30-1-2010

January 30, 2010

The General Medical Council (GMC) has responded to a query from the Celtic League about the involvement of Prison Doctors in the disciplinary processes used against inmates at Maghaberry Prison, in the British controlled north of Ireland. The League had pointed out to

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