Month: October 2016

News from Mannin Branch Celtic League: The Isle of Man will celebrate a unique UN award next week when the Secretary of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme formally inaugurate our status as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. At an

There will be a large military parade in Donegal Town on Monday, October 24 to mark the deployment of the 109th Infantry Battalion as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) who will commence a six month deployment in November.

We have had initial reply from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs to say they are looking at our request for IMO action over the regulation of submarine activity. Ireland sponsored the initial resolution in 1987 after a series of Irish Sea incidents and

The Marine Accident Investigation Report into the collision between a Royal Navy submarine and the Co Down MFV Karen a year ago has finally been released (link): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/…/MAIBInvReport20_… I will not go through the detail because it is all in the report but

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has responded to our further query about the fate of the Chagos Islanders who were forcibly removed from their homeland sixty years ago so that the United Kingdom could allow the United States to construct a military base

‘There were massacres, villages were burned by French troops and in one horrendous incident live people were thrown from a French military plane’. Earlier this year a further claim was brought in the United Kingdom High Court for victims of violence perpetrated by

With this year being the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising in Dublin a variety of items have been taking place. The Celtic League held its AGM in Dublin again this year at Easter and events organised by the branch have taken place

Irish branch member, Caoimhín Ó Cadhla, advises me that there is a Celtic Sociollinguistics Symposium on at Trinity College Dublin on Oct 13/14 (2016). The link is here with details of the programme of events over the two day period; http://celticsociolinguistics.com/ BERNARD MOFFATT

You think it’s dangerous with Kim Jong-un having his hand on the nuclear trigger well just read this report on the type of person who is deployed with the United Kingdoms so called nuclear deterrent. The Scottish newspaper reports on this drunken rampage