Mec Vannin Rams Home The Message On Unacceptable Energy Pricing

January 5, 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Well it doesn’t look as if Mec Vannin paid much heed to the critics who found their Manx Gas poster item offensive! The suggestion that a failure to deal with rising costs would ultimately lead to more winter

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Missed Opportunity To Shunt the Constitutional Gravy Train Into The Siding For Good!

January 4, 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE After ‘lightening up’ somewhat for the holiday period you come back down to earth with a bump when through feedback to our posts here we learn of what ordinary people are suffering at the moment. People in low

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The Voice of Manx Youth At Hango Hill

January 4, 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Delivering the Illiam Dhone Manx oration at Hango Hill, Isla Callister, symbolises an increasingly confident face of Manx Gaelic language and culture prepared to speak out over issues that the new generation of nationalist see as imperative. Her

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Unpopular Policies Paralysed Island

January 1, 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE This year’s celebrations of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland got underway today in Dublin. However what is not always realised is that 1916 was also a radical year for the Isle of Man with a protest at

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‘Experience Of A Lifetime’ – Kimathi Wouldn’t Know Whether To Laugh Or cry

December 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE If Dedan Kimathi was alive today I don’t know whether he would laugh or cry at the reports that his Kenyan countrymen had the ‘experience of a lifetime’ when they visited the Tynwald, the Manx parliament. Kimathi was

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Don’t Forget! Illiam Dhone Commemoration Next Weekend

December 28, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A reminder that (as previously publicised) the National Illiam Dhone Commemoration takes place on January 2nd (2:00pm) at Hango Hill, Castletown This year’s oration in the Manx language will be delivered by Isla Callister followed by another in

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Shameless! Now A Tax ‘Give Away’ To Complement The £50 Million ‘Tax-Away’

December 27, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Do you remember that series on Channel 4 called ‘Shameless’ well I think there’s scope for a rerun of the series in a slightly different form featuring our Council of Ministers (COMIN). Latest give-away (don’t get excited it’s

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Can We Afford To Indulge In This Pageant Of Nonsense?

December 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE We are already cash-strapped with indications that there is an exodus of people from the Island if the housing market is anything to go by and recent downturns in the construction industry. There’s fuel poverty and in some

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Who Gets To Regulate Themselves In This Day And Age?

December 24, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Now if there’s one thing about Manx Deemsters you can’t accuse them of being stuffy. When given good advice they’ll take it as we noted about five years ago (August 2011) when they introduced a grandly sounding ‘CODE

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One Hunt The Prey Survives

December 24, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Boxing Day (or St Stephen’s Day) sees traditional ‘hunt the wren’ gatherings in many of the Celtic countries. The origins of the tradition are lost in time but it is probably a pre-christian ritual continued, with adaptation, after

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