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In line with my ‘slack saturday’ strategy I’m about to settle comfortably when I find a message in my inbox. It points me towards an article on something called the SAVE CAMLORK pages which highlights a recent paper by several well known luminaries.

The world has been turned on its head these days the Cops are ‘the conscience of the nation’ years ago it used to be the Church. The Church is kind of irrelevant now except for running food banks so ‘Les Flic’ step in like in this piece (link):

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=42362&headline=Businesses%20sho...

Constructed nearly 6000 years ago, some 1000 years before Stonehenge, Tinkinswood Burial Chamber - Siambr Gladdu Tinkinswood is an impressive Neolithic dolmen. A huge 40 ton capstone, thought to be the largest in Europe, covers a rectangular burial chamber with a dry stone wall forecourt.  When excavated the chamber held the bodies of over 50 individuals, along with broken pottery and worked flint. Originally it would have been covered by an earthen mound. It is located about a mile from St Nicholas (Sain Nicolas) in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales (Bro Morgannwg, De Cymru).

UPDATE: My effusive optoimisim over the new development reported here is dashed as Paul Moulton says its archive material. Like politicians even journos have a 'hol' at this time of year it seems, I wonder now if the latest site plans will go unrealised - oh woe!

In Dublin housing activists have escalated their protests over the housing crisis. Homelessness and affordable housing. The move comes as a dramatic increase in rents in all areas of the country especially the Dublin conurbation are revealed.

Despite being evicted following a court order from properties occupied for a week protesters have gone on to occupy the Offices of the Housing Minister. The Housing ministry is sited in the Custom House and imposing building that any visitors to Dublin using the IOM Ferry will be aware of.

An Sionnach Fionn website has a report on a new documentary by Channel Four on the murder of fourteen civilians including mother of eight children Joan Connolly in August 1971.

There is a trailer for the film to be screened shortly at this link:

https://ansionnachfionn.com/2018/08/08/the-ballymurphy-precedent-a-new-d...

Bernard Moffatt

Despite unwarranted worries about the weather, crowds flocked to this year's Royal Manx Agricultural Show, which attracted lots of visitors through the gates at Knockaloe Farm in Patrick on both days, to the delight of organisers.

The Neolithic chambered tombs of Cairnholy stand in Dumfries and Galloway (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) in south-west Scotland. There are two chambered tomb sites that are within just over 164 yards (150m) of each other. They are in a beautiful location on a gentle sloping hill above Kirkdale Glen looking towards Wigtown Bay. Both are very impressive and were built to honour the ancestors of the Neolithic farming communities that lived in this area between 6000 and 4000 years ago.

With David Ashford and Alf Cannan MHKs busy dismantling the Manx health service I’ve been busy in my quest to find traditional charms and cures for all manner of maladies. I was fortunate to discover WW Gill’s book ‘Customs and Traditions, Cures and Charms, Fairies and Phantoms’.

Must try to track down a print edition - anyway the online version is at this link

http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~stephen/chiollaghbooksfirstseries/cb04.pdf

I’ve just read a selection of written questions posed for written answer in this new device supposed to convince us that whilst Tynwald is actually on holiday and enjoying the fringe benefits to their £50K plus they are ‘pretend’ working. They were helpfully posted as always by Crown Dependency News:

https://www.facebook.com/crowndependencypoliticalnews/photos/a.790761064...