Month: February 2021

Ed Horgan of Shannonwatch succeeded in the last week (15th – 21st Feb) in getting considerable publicity for ongoing breaches of Covid rules occurring on a regular basis by US Military at Shannon and in the Shannon area Shannonwatch called on the Irish government

The Sinn Féin spokesperson on the Irish language, Gaeltacht, Arts and Culture, Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, has written to the French Ambassador to Ireland to express his party’s concern at French Government attack on education in the Breton language. Mr Ó Snodaigh says:

The French Minister of Education has decided that DIWAN secondary schools in Brittany will now only be allowed to provide less than three hours a week of Breton. The Diwan Language schools were established in the 1970s and are playing a key role

Peace groups in Ireland who saw PESCO (European Permanent Structured Cooperation in the area of security and defence) as a step on the road to a neutrality breaking military alliance will greet the news that Israel is now part of the PESCO’ fold’

It’s been known for some time that Royal Air Force personnel have been assisting with US counterparts in Saudi command and control centres engaged in coordinating the bombing of Yemen. In addition the only thing keeping the Saudi Air Force in the Air

The machinery of the death industry is becoming well established in the Celtic countries and the announcement that Spirit AeroSystems (Belfast) is to take the lead role in ‘Project Mosquito’ takes it a step further. The system will develop attack drones for the

The Celtic League has campaigned for almost a quarter of a century for people of the Chagos Islands. They were brutally removed by force by the UK and US military about 50 years ago to make way for a US military base. A

An article in the current issue of Carn (the journal of the Celtic League) which was published earlier this month focuses on housing. The piece by MIchael Josem – which is illustrated with graphs – opens by saying: “New research uncovered through a

The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is a strange body on the one hand it says Sellafield meets high standards on safety but then issues a safety improvement notice: “While we are satisfied that Sellafield Ltd is currently meeting the high standards

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has issued a compliance notice in respect of Heysham 1 nuclear plant operated by EDF this week: Here’s the detail: http://news.onr.org.uk/…/onr-issues-direction-to…/ Heysham 1 has had a troubled life in recent years; it was shut down in 2013