Manx Gas: A Couldn’t Care Less Manx Government

November 5, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Last week the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), which has co-signed the ‘sweetheart’ deal which allows Manx Gas to charge consumers just about what it wants, told us: ‘One of the three key priorities of the current administration

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Mann: Mark Charters and Geoff Draper are Hardly ‘The Cambridge Spies’

September 13, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE What on earth is happening in the senior administrative echelons of the Man government? First the Chief Executive of the Health Service, Mark Charters, departs after literally being in the job for ‘five minutes’. This week the Head

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Manx Nationalists Protest at New Tynwald Arrangements

April 5, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE “new arrangements will turn the National Day over to commercial enterprises that provide bouncy castles, candy floss, junk food, and cheap goods.” The Manx Nationalist Party (Mec Vannin) has sent a strongly worded letter to both the Tynwald

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Manx Government Sets Out Its Priorities

December 15, 2014

News From Celtic League The Isle of Man Government has responded to a letter sent by the general secretary (GS) in September, asking the Chief Minister of Mannin (Isle of Man), Allan Bell, what priorities he thinks are important for the Island over

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Manx Parliamentarians On Kenya Trip

September 12, 2010

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE MANX PARLIAMENTARIANS ON KENYA TRIP Two Manx parliamentarians are currently attending the gathering of the bCommonwealth Parliamentary Association in Kenya. Trips of this kind are often justified by some positive spin-off which is accentuated. However it is difficult to

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Irish Government Queried On All Ireland DTT And Saorsat provision

September 12, 2010

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE IRISH GOVERNMENT QUERIED ON ALL IRELAND DTT AND SAORSAT PROVISION The Celtic League have written to Ireland’s Communication Minister, Eamon Ryan,asking him to clarify possible ambiguities in an agreement signed between the UK and Ireland on the provision of

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