Kincora: Villiers Sticks with HIA but Leaves Room for a Possible Volte-Face

September 3, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Theresa Villiers, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has responded to the query I forwarded relating to the Kincora Home and allegations of child abuse (link): https://www.celticleague.net/news/league-attack-villiers-over-kincora/ Disappointingly the Secretary of State is still insisting the allegations are

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Kincora: Spooks Keep the Lid on their Sleazy Past

July 20, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE KINCORA: SPOOKS KEEP THE LID ON THEIR SLEAZY PAST We have highlighted, on several occasions, the Kincora scandal in which young people detained at the children’s home in Northern Ireland in the 1970s were abused their and also

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Dail Support for Independent Inquiry into Ballymurphy Massacre

July 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE On the occasion of the recent visit by the British Royal Family member Prince Charles we highlighted the sycophantic coverage of the event by the Irish media. We contrasted the ‘royal visit propaganda’ with the dearth of media

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Nama Millions Claim and Counter Claim

July 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The deposit of £7 million pounds from a NAMA deal in the North of Ireland continues to attract controversy with one of the key participants Belfast Solicitor. Ian Coulter, breaking his silence to deny some aspects of the

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Another File on CR Gas Found But One Still Closed

July 8, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE In December of 2014 we wrote to the British Government seeking information held by the British Government on ‘Operation Pagoda’ which was a code name given to the use of CR Gas in Northern Ireland. There are a

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May Turns Her Back on Child Abuse in Intelligence House of Horrors

March 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It was dubbed the ‘House of horrors” where children were abused whilst the authorities looked the other way. The Kincora boy’s home in Belfast was the scene of serious organised sex abuse of children in the 1970s. It

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Council of Europe Focus on Outstanding Troubles Inquests

March 16, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The United Kingdom has been asked by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers (CoMIN) to submit a plan to resolve a number of outstanding inquests into deaths during the Troubles. The Committee considered the issue at its

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Always a Platform for Torture Apologists in the British Media

December 16, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A few days ago the New York Times (NYT) commenting when the US Senate released its controversial report into torture said: “The publication today of a censored summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the use of

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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 to Published Files on Operation Pagoda

December 15, 2014

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League have written to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence asking when it will release forty year old files on Operation Pagoda which covered the deployment and use of CR Gas in Ulster in the 1970s.

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