MOD Query on Troops Who Abscond Whilst Facing Criminal Charges

January 1, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has written to the Ministry of Defence asking a number of questions about the procedure and policies pursued when a soldier released into military custody by a Court absconds. The move follows earlier unsuccessful attempts

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Irish Government Urged to Seek release of Secret MoD CR Gas Files

December 15, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has asked the Irish government to add its voice to the calls for secret files covering (Operation Pagoda) – the stockpiling and use of CR gas by British security forces in Ireland – to be

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MOD Pressed on Soldier Who Absconded

July 10, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has posed a series of questions to the UK Ministry of Defence about a soldier released into British military custody by the Manx courts who subsequently absconded (text below). “Secretary of State for Defence Phillip

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RAF Hawk Jets in Airprox Incidents

July 10, 2013

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Manx Police Say Unwanted British Soldier Has Eluded Justice

July 10, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Manx Police have confirmed that a British soldier who had been charged with a serious offence and was bailed into military custody has eluded justice by fleeing the UK. The League wrote to the IOM Constabulary earlier this

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Militarisation of Children Condemned

June 3, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has written to the Northern Ireland Children’s Commissioner about the militarisation of children. The League says her stance in condemning the appearance of children in paramilitary garb on parades whilst failing to criticise cadet forces

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Cameron Deflects Attention From Army Murder Gangs

October 19, 2011

“It was clear within minutes that we had been lured to Downing Street under false pretences by a disreputable Government led by a dishonourable man.” This was the reaction of Geraldine Finucane, widow of murdered Belfast Solicitor Pat Finucane, after David Cameron announced

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‘Serious And Gratuitous Violence’ By British Army

September 14, 2011

A three-year public inquiry into the death of an innocent Iraqi civilian in 2003, who was detained by British troops in Iraq, concluded yesterday (8th September 2011) that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was culpable of corporate and systematic failings and that “serious

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Another Crash For Troubled Jet Trainer

August 26, 2011

There has been a further accident involving an RAF Hawk T1A trainer jet, a type which operates extensively over the Celtic country and the safety record of which the Celtic League has consistently raised concerns over. In the latest incident an aircraft attached

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South Irish Sea Designated Danger Area Query

July 14, 2011

The Celtic League has written to the Department of Transport in Ireland asking if they were involved in a consultation (undertaken by UK authorities) which has established a new `designated danger area’ for the testing of unmanned – military and civil robotic –

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