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Celtic Council of Australia Celebrate Australia Day 2016

Australia Day is celebrated on January 26 each year. The public holiday of Australia Day always occurs on January 26 no matter what day of the week it occurs. Australians consider January 26 with national pride, flying the Australian flag from businesses, homes, cars and gatherings. They attend festivals, fireworks, community and sporting events or gather for family barbecues at homes, parks or on the beach.

Congo UN Mission Saw The First Deaths Of Irish Peacekeepers

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Our report on the film to be released this year (The Siege of Jadotville) on the Irish UN contribution to the Congo peace-keeping mission has provoked quite a bit of interest and an extremely good take up in terms of page reach.

It was the first of what was to be over fifty years of peace-keeping in which Ireland’s Defence Forces have gained a reputation for professionalism and even-handedness

Cameron Gets Blast Of Fire from The Welsh Dragon!

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The Welsh Assembly have just given David Cameron a kick ‘where it hurts’ by voting to block the UK government’s trade union bill in Wales.

Assembly members said it would undermine public services, the economy and the “constructive social partnership” between workers and employers in Wales.

Instead of heeding the Welsh Assembly’s decision, the UK government is ignoring it and has said the bill will continue its progress through the Westminster parliament.

Trinity College: US Ambassador Views Manuscript Project

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The United States Ambassador to Ireland recently visited Trinity College to view progress of a major project which will see four of the Library’s most important early medieval Irish manuscripts conserved, digitised and made available online to the public and world of scholarship for the first time.

The work is being funded by a US financial institution and it will undoubtedly through the interactivity associated with its roll out alongside other manuscripts ensure Trinity and Dublin becomes a focus for both education and research on this period.

Reih Bleeaney Vanannan - Manannan's Choice of the Year - cultural award for 2016.

Media Release from Culture Vannin:

AN EXCEPTIONAL DECISION FOR TWO EXCEPTIONAL CULTURAL CHAMPIONS THIS YEAR’S RBV AWARDED POSTHUMOUSLY TO BERNARD CAINE AND JOHN KENNAUGH

Cultural champions of the highest order, Bernard Caine and John Kennaugh, have been honoured posthumously with the Reih Bleeaney Vanannan - Manannan's Choice of the Year - cultural award for 2016.

Jadotville Film Will Highlight Heroic Stance Of Irish UN Peacekeepers

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A film to be released this year will celebrate the heroic defence by Irish UN peacekeeping forces of the town of Jadotville in Katanga (see link):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jadotville

The peacekeepers, men of A Company, 35th Battalion of the Defence Forces hitherto have not had proper recognition for what they achieved as UN soldiers in the Congo in September 1961.

UNESCO move on Irish Sport, Music And Folklore

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Several items of Irish sport, music and folklore are to be considered for special UNESCO recognition and protection. Hurling, the Uilleann Pipes and the Irish folklore collection will be under scrutiny by the United Nations body.

The issue will be considered and a decision taken next year.

It is imperative that both the Celtic League and Celtic Congress press for a wider recognition of unique examples of wider Celtic culture and sport across all the Celtic countries.

The Manx Government's New Friends 'Poachers And Vandals'

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Allen Moore is the International Relations Officer for Mec Vannin and Environmental Officer for Celtic League Mannin.

In the article below he delivers an acerbic view of Mann’s new ‘trading partner of choice’ China following information he gleaned from contacts made after a recent visit to Australia.

His article about the conditions for fisherman matches the reports we have carried previously from Ian Urbina’s series of articles (The Outlaw Ocean) published by the New York Times.

KPMG In The Courts - London This Time!

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Looks like KPMG just can’t stay out of Court in one jurisdiction or another.

We had the CBC revelations about KPMG Canada that’s currently in the Courts there although all has gone quiet since we heard the Canadian Revenue Commissioners were trying to do a backroom deal. That provoked our ire and a series of letters to the Canadian High Commissioner which weren’t answered until we politely told him he was a cheeky bugger!

Then there was that KPMG Northern Ireland linked episode (see link):

Lesson From 'The Emerald Isle'

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Crooked financial institutions, dodgy businessmen and a government in thrall to them sounds almost like Mann today but it was Ireland before the banking collapse.

In this article Eibhlin O'Neill says despite inquiries many believe the truth is still being concealed.

Paradoxically the Manx government were recently in Ireland on a ‘fact-finding’ mission over the plans for their EDF what they didn’t say was that a large percentage of Ireland’s economic development funds are wasted.

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