KPMG: Making The Headlines!

December 2, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE We have reported on several occasions on the ‘travails’ of KPMG Canada particularly following a visit to the Isle of Man by respected Canadian Broadcaster CBC who ran a series of investigatory documentaries about the firm and its

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CBC Visits the IOM – But Not for Tynwald Day!

September 13, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It’s the old adage ‘you wait for a bus and then two come along at once’. It seems it’s the same with allegations of impropriety involving the Island’s financial services industry. First we had Mick Wallace TD standing

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More Tynwald Arrangements Concerns

April 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A frequent visitor to the Isle of Man who has studied its language and culture has expressed his reservations about potential changes mooted by the Tynwald Ceremony Arrangements Committee (TCAC) in relation to the annual National Day on

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Mann: ‘Sceptred Isle’ Being Turned into a Giant Cash-Point for Government

April 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE MANN: ‘SCEPTRED ISLE’ BEING TURNED INTO A GIANT CASH-POINT FOR GOVT. They’re arrogant, self serving, politically narcissistic and they want to empty your pocket. When will the worms turn? Other jurisdictions produce non-violent civil disobedience when will Manx

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League Support Nationalist Concerns Over Tynwald Day

April 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE LEAGUE SUPPORT NATIONALIST CONCERNS OVER TYNWALD DAY The Celtic League has supported concerns articulated by Mec Vannin (the Manx Nationalist Party) about the increasing commercialisation of the National Tynwald Day ceremony at St Johns on July 5th. Me

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Tynwald Ceremonial A Big Turn Off

July 23, 2010

It is a sad indictment of the Manx National (Tynwald) Day that many people on the Island (if a recent poll is anything to go by) seem to see its main significance as a day off! The poll in the Isle of Man

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Tynwald Day: Celebration Of Nationalist Pride Or Colonial Festival

June 21, 2010

The Isle of Man is in count-down mode to the annual national `Tynwald Day’. The event takes place at Tynwald Hill in the west of the Island and is billed as the National holiday for the Manx people. In recent years it has

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