Month: October 2020

In a stunning victory for Peace Activists in Ireland the defence of ‘Lawful Excuse’ is accepted in a case where the defendants entered Shannon Airport and confronted Garda and Irish Army personnel guarding US military aircraft. Shannon is a link in a supply

“Ken: (you wonder is there a Barbie at MI5) is going to concentrate on China and Russia but will still find time to keep tabs on Irish subversisives” The new head of MI5 is a Scot Ken McCallum who appears like a grown

The news about the solar powered giant ‘ironing board’ mysteriously washed up on the Scottish Isle of Tiree brings back happy memories of the ‘Contestor P’ incident of Skerries in 1989 we reported on as part of our extensive Military Monitoring of submarine

Solar panel equipped giant surf board? No its wave glider. But whose is it and what’s it spying on? Mystery still surrounds a robotic craft that washed up on Tiree about 10 days ago. The ‘wave glider’ robot craft appears to have a

‘Declassified UK’ has published further detail on the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) training programme in the UK. Celtic League have focused on the training of RSAF and other Gulf state personnel at RAF Valley in Anglesey which also uses the Civil Airport

The Council of Europe prisons ‘watchdog’, The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture’ has issued a forceful critique of the treatment of female prisoners in Scottish Jails The Executive report of the CPT following a follow up visit to an earlier inspection

Another worrying report from Rob Edwards at Scottish investigative web site ‘The Ferret’ about Hunterston nuclear plant in Ayrshire and its ‘cracking’ reactor: “Running an ageing nuclear reactor at Hunterston in North Ayrshire for another year could cause cracks in its core to

‘Fishing bycatch is the biggest threat to whales, dolphins and porpoises’ This report has been published today, showing the extent of the threat to cetaceans by becoming accidently captured in fishing equipment and nets, which kills an estimated 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises

A dramatic decline in seabirds is charted by a Manx bird life organisation. There’s a link to the full report here; http://manxbirdlife.im/seabirdcensus2017-18/ As indicated our current Celtic League Mannin branch Secretary Allen Moore has been prominent in charting the levels of bird life

As a precursor to my piece about nationalist agitation in a recent post I cited the famous speech of Speaker of the House of Keys, J D Qualtrough, who did not pull any punches when he addressed the Keys in January 1944 and