Month: July 2020

A report here from Highland Radio in Donegal about the incident last week with a Royal Navy warship and submarine operating near Tory Island: https://www.highlandradio.com/…/donegal-fishing-vessel-ord…/ The radio interviews the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation CEO who says the incident was in Irish waters. Checking a

The Irish Independent has a report on a confrontation between a Royal Navy warship and an Irish trawler off Donegal. The report says the HMS Lancaster ordered the trawler (MFV Marliona) to leave the area west if Tory Island. The warship was about

There is spy fever at the moment what with Putin infiltrating the UK and Chinese PLA members in mufti being sought or hiding in consulates in the US. Eighty years ago of course the bogeyman of the world was Germany and pre WW2

It’s a depressing ecological disaster in the making. A fleet of mainly Chinese trawlers spanning an area of 350 kilometres and a wall of nets which is a ‘wall of death’ for fish, sharks and marine mammals. For several days now reports have

Having had a chance to digest in detail the MAIB report into the incident involving a British nuclear submarine and a Stena Ferry it’s clear that the decision to site a submarine exercise at periscope depth in a congested shipping lane used by

The Royal Navy was at fault in an incident two years ago when a nuclear submarine almost collided with a Stena Ferry on passage between Britain and Ireland. The MAIB has finally published a report which found that: “This near miss happened because

The Irish Times reported at the weekend that large amounts of waste plastic ostensibly exported to Asia for recycling is ending up in the Ocean. If this goes on ‘Beach Buddies’ will be busy for generations. Two Irish Universities NUI Galway and the

Yesterday a demonstration took place in Quimper in support of the teaching of the Breton Langiage: “Introduction to Breton at school in danger! Call to protest outside the Academic Inspectorate on July 1 By PRESS RELEASE -June 29, 2020 Quimper, Wednesday July 1,

Tomorrow is the eightieth anniversary of the occupation of the Channel Islands League Secretary Allen Moore asks what being defended by the UK means in that context. Additionally just days after the 80th anniversary of the German bombing of St Peter Port on