Month: September 2020

The BBC reports that a new investigation is to be launched into the 1976 murder of Co Louth forestry worker Seamus Ludlow. When I reviewed the work of the Celtic League over many decades in January 2010 right at the end of a

The story about Rathlin Island labelled the ‘UK Island’ with no coronavirus drew a fair bit of interest. So I thought I would go in search of more on this very ‘Irish’ Island. Although I’ve been all over Ireland East Ulster is the

When KPMG are not arranging multi-million pound refunds of VAT for Corporate jets bought by millionaires and oligarchs over in Ireland they are making life difficult for former Debenham workers. KPMG are handling the Debenhams liquidation and the workers are trying to get

In Covid ravaged times it’s difficult for theatre. The Druid in Ireland have overcome that by staging six plays by Lady Augusta Gregory outdoors at Coole Park. I muse, it’s in the tradition of Frederico Garcia Lorca the second Spanish Republic and ‘La

When the government of Bahrain were looking to improve their human rights image and the performance of the Bahrain Police they turned to among others the PSNI – it didn’t work. The Bahrain Police had one of the bloodiest records of Police Services

“the plans for an attack by Loyalist paramilitaries on a catholic primary school at Belleeks….shockingly….was suggested by British military intelligence and was even a step too far for the loyalist paramilitary leadership..” The film documentary ‘Unquiet Graves’ screened this week by RTE starts

The Scottish Investigative site The Ferret has this report on a new UN study that has analysed the conflict in Yemen. Amongst other things the UN report recommends the UN Security Council (UNSC) to refer the issue to the International Criminal Court. Whether

PAWB have welcomed a decision by Hitachi to pull out of plans to build a new nuclear power station at Wylfa on Anglesey. The site was close to the old nuclear plant now being decommissioned; “As expected Hitachi is to abandon all plans

Carn arrives and as usual never ceases to astonish with a rich mix of articles. There’s everything from a brief piece on ‘radioactive mud’ to Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland, finding a ‘Celtic League’ in Los Angeles in 1906. It’s contained in

“With the best will in the world a submarine is only as good as its crew and one (RN) did collide with the Isle of Skye some years ago!” The Celtic League has written to the Irish government about the incident involving an