Welsh Government Respond on Refugee Help Call

September 11, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Welsh Assembly government has responded to the Secretary General of the Celtic League who wrote to all governments in the Celtic countries urging action to assist the refugees from Syria and North Africa (see link); https://www.celticleague.net/news/league-general-secretary-in-migrants-appeal-to-leaders/ Assembly

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Cymru is not an Extension of England

September 9, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE CYMRU IS NOT AN EXTENSION OF ENGLAND The decision to rename the Millennium Stadium in Caerdydd (Cardiff), Cymru (Wales) the Principality Stadium, undermines the constitutional status of the country. Cymru is a nation in its own right and

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Welsh and Scots to Commemorate 1916 Rising

August 21, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There will be Easter Rising commemorations in North Wales. Following the rising in 1916 many of those detained by the British Army were imprisoned at Frongoch Prisoner of war Camp in Gwynedd. Amongst those imprisoned in the Camp

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Drone Protesters in Court in Wales

August 7, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Four women have appeared in Court in North Wales charged with painting ‘anti-drone graffiti’ at Llanbedr airfield in June. The women were part of a group which has painted slogans and displayed protest banners at the airfield following

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Wales: Language Initiative Welcomed

August 6, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The General Secretary of the Celtic League has welcomed a new language initiative announced at the National Eisteddfod, Rhisiart Talebot said: “The development of new Welsh language initiatives and the extension of existing ones announced at the National

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Cymru: Calls to Halt Funding to Gardens in Language Dispute

April 21, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Welsh language campaigners have reacted furiously to a decision by the National Botanic Garden of Wales in Llanarthne to use an English-only sign. The sign was placed on the A48 advertising an event over Easter and immediately attracted

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Frongoch: Republican Prisoners remembered

April 17, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE On Easter Monday a ceremony took place at the site of Frongoch Prison Camp near Bala in North Wales to commemorate the prisoners who were held there following the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916. The ceremony, which

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New Heritage Centre Celebrates Patagonia Links

March 25, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE It is not often we have a CL News item that is of direct interest to our colleagues in the Patagonian branch of the Celtic League but the news of a £1 million pound lottery grant to aid

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Fukushima Anniversary: Anti Wylfa Group Protest New-Build Nuclear Plant

March 13, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Members of the anti-nuclear group People Against Wylfa B (PAWB) used the fourth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster today to stage a protest on Anglesey against plans to site a new nuclear power station on the Island.

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Another Shut-Down at Wylfa Nuclear Plant

March 10, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The remaining live nuclear reactor at Wylfa power station on Anglesey has been shut-down after problems came to light during reactor refuelling. The plants operators say the decision to ‘shut-down’ was a ‘conservative decision’ taken whilst they ‘investigate’

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