UK response On Super Trawlers And Worker Conditions Disappointing

December 24, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE We have received a response to our queries to the UK Government over two issues: Treatment of migrant fishermen employed at sea on trawlers The operations and damage cause by super trawlers The reply is set out below;

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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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Theresa Keeps MI5 on a Tight Rein – How I Laughed!

July 29, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Intelligence Services Commissioner says in his most recent report that the Northern Ireland Office and its Secretary, Theresa Villiers, take ‘great care when considering requests from the counter-terrorism agency’ for surveillance warrants. He also went on to

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UK Government Respond on Nuclear Waste Ship Fire

February 22, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The United Kingdom government (via its Maritime and Coastguard Agency) has responded to a query from the Celtic League about the fire on a Danish ship, the MV Parida, which was transporting nuclear waste from Dounreay in Scotland

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Defence Sec Asked Why MOD Paid Hush-money in Abuse Cases

January 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE DEFENCE SEC ASKED WHY MOD PAID HUSH-MONEY IN ABUSE CASES The Celtic League have written to United Kingdom Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, MP, asking why his Department hushed-up a scandal involving allegations of physical and sexual abuse in

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Stealing a Nation: The Plight of the Chagos Islanders

January 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Nationalists are often accused of being introverted and caring little for that which goes on in the wider world. In terms of Celtic nationalism over the years in the Celtic League we have confounded that stereotypical description by

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Theresa May Quizzed on Actions she has Taken Over Cadet Abuse Allegations

January 30, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has written to the UK Home Secretary asking what action she has taken following revelations that the Ministry of Defence paid out £2 million pounds over 3 years to silence allegations about physical and sexual

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Anger at Union Flag on Driving Licences Plan

January 4, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A decision to replace the EU symbol on United Kingdom driving licences with the Union Flag has provoked outrage in Scotland and Wales. The changes which apply to England, Scotland and Wales only will according to English Prime

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Prisms Allegations Fanciful Says Hague But the UK has Form

June 9, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that the idea that the UK spied on vast numbers of its citizens using the United States `Prism’ system is `fanciful’ and `nonsense’. However the Celtic League has reminded him that

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Kenya Land and Freedom Army Veterans Win Compensation From UK

June 9, 2013

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE When the campaign for freedom was launched in Kenya over sixty years ago few would have thought that it would have a sequel in the British courts which would see the British governments forced to apologise and compensate

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