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Welsh Laws to Protect the Celtic Tongue Against Property Developers Begins to Bite

A law passed last year by the Welsh Assembly which seeks to protect Welsh Language areas from the ill effects of property developers has begun to work. A major property development scheme in the Welsh language heartland has been blocked by the local authority under the terms of the “Planning Wales Act of 2015”.  The legislation requires local planning authorities to assess the impact of proposed property development on Welsh speaking area.  The legislation states that the authority must “...

The Unresolved Tragedy At Tuskar Rock

News from the Celtic League:

“The Irish government seemed relieved when the ‘definitive’ 2002 report was produced they paid little attention to the fact that their Chief Inspector of Accidents report produced just months after the crash in 1968 and able to interview eye witnesses was traduced by the foreign ‘experts’ working almost thirty five years later when most material evidence was lost!”

Are The Celtic Countries A 'Soft Touch' For NATO?

News from the Celtic League:

We focused on the potential danger posed to mariners by the NATO exercise Joint Warrior 2016 – 1 which gets underway from midnight tonight but another potential threat is to the environment from pollution or the impact of naval sonar on marine life.

The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin trust has carried out some research on this in recent years and you can find some information on their site (link);

Secrets Of 'House Of Horrors' May Remain Hidden

News from the Celtic League:

There has been a further setback to attempts to get the Justice Lowell Goddard inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales to include investigation of the Kincora sex abuse scandal in N. Ireland (links):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35997873

Bonnie Prince Charlie's Cooking Pot Comes Up For Sale

Rare and interesting items often turn up for auction. One such object is the cooking pot that is thought to have belonged to Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie). Dating back to the Jacobite rising of 1745, when Charles Edward Stuart sought to regain the throne for the exiled House of Stuart, the cast iron 18th century pot is valued at between £15,000 to £20,000.

In seeking to establish its provenance Bonhams annual Scottish auction refers to an extract from 'Story and Songs from Lochness-side', Alexander Macdonald, Inverness, 1914:

Irish Branch Of Celtic League Highlight NATO Exercise Concerns

The Secretary of An Conradh Ceilteach (the Irish branch of the Celtic League), Caoimhín Ó Cadhla was on Irish TV news this afternoon commenting on the forthcoming NATO exercise and the danger it poses to fishermen.

The League has been monitoring the build up of activity ahead of the exercise due to start on Monday and run for ten days.

The news item on the Irish language bulletin Nuacht on RTE 1 included footage of NATO exercise and fishing craft.

Sea Monsters Plunder The Seas From Scotland To The South Atlantic

News From The Celtic League:

Very detailed report at this link from Greenpeace which shows just how devastating the sheer volume of fish these vessels can catch and process each day.

Not only the fish they catch but also trawl in small marine mammal’s dolphins and immature whales.

The Red Kite

News From Mannin Branch Of Celtic League:

There is an interesting article on the Down News web pages about efforts to monitor the Red Kite population which was reintroduced in Northern Ireland in the Co Down a few years ago.

I thought it might be of interest as we have quite a substantial community of folk who enjoy bird-watching on Mann and who knows the odd Red Kite or two from our adjacent Island might wander across the Irish Sea for a ‘hol’!

“HAVE YOU SEEN A RED KITE

Just How Much Manx Business Is There With Panama Firm

News From The Mannin Branch Celtic League:

Interesting to see the FCA in the United Kingdom went on the offensive when the Panama leaks broke and asked banks to declare any links to Mossack Fonesca.

I bet a penny to a pound there was no such action taken in the Isle of Man by the FSC.

Still its not to late and perhaps the FSC given Chief Minister Allan Bells boast that the Island is squeaky clean and ahead of most other jurisdictions we could go one step further and ask all banks, accountancy firms, csp and legal practices to come clean about any links with MF.

Who Killed Willie MacRae?

News From The Celtic League:

There is renewed focus on the mystery surrounding the death of SNP member and environmental campaigner Willie MacRae over thirty years after his death.

MacRae’s death on April 7th 1985 on a lonely Scottish road in the Highlands has long been surrounded by controversy and many people in Scotland firmly reject the official verdict that the campaigner committed suicide.

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