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Skye (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach) is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides (Na h-Eileanan a-staigh) of Scotland. Now a new study from finds on Skye, published in the Scottish Journal of Geology, is shedding new light on dinosaur evolution. This comes after the discovery of giant prehistoric footprints belonging to sauropods and therapods from the Middle Jurassic period on the Isle of Skye.

Michelle O'Neill, Vice President of Irish political party Sinn Féin and Leader of Sinn Féin in the Northern Ireland Assembly (Irish: Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann) has said there should be a referendum on Irish unity within the next five years. Speaking at an annual commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Belfast (Irish: Béal Feirste) on Sunday she pointed to the benefits that a united Ireland would bring for all of the people of Ireland.

The Easter Rising of 1916 is being commemorated around Ireland today including a military ceremony in O'Connell Street in Dublin. The uprising was mounted by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland. It was one of the defining moments of the long struggle for Irish independence. The ceremony in O'Connell Street was led by Ireland's President Michael D Higgins and the Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Prayers of remembrance were said, along with a reading of the Proclamation and the laying of a wreath by the President.

Construction work is moving on apace at Kresen Kernow.

The roof tiles have gone on the old brewhouse and most of the windows are in.

The spine that runs across the roof line and ends in the viewing window on the first floor has been covered in copper and it looks great!

The gable ends of the brewhouse are just about finished and work has started on linking the brewhouse to the new archive store.

The archive store is just about complete and it’s huge.

News from the Celtic League:

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Tuskar Rock Aer Lingus crash I thought I would post two RTE Archive items which are seldom aired they were made some years ago.

The first deals with the sequence of events and focuses on the original report and includes an interview with the Accident Inspector who compiled it:

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Stop Press: Friday’s ‘Cornwall Housing Summit’ for developers has recommended an increase of new builds in Cornwall from 52,000 to 60,000!

A message from campaign co-ordinator, Orlando Kimber:

Purely by chance, I met one of the UK’s leading landscape architects last week.

News from the Celtic League:

The 50th commemoration of the 61 victims of the crash of Aer Lingus flight EI 172 (St. Phelim) took place on Sat, last in Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, Ireland. The flight had been on its way from Cork to London. It is Ireland’s worst aviation tragedy.

News from the Celtic League:

Ireland's Minister with Responsibility for Defence Paul Kehoe has visited Irish troops serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Currently, a total of some 380 Irish personnel are serving with UNIFIL.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Ireland’s first deployment to Lebanon as part of the UNIFIL mission.

One Sunday, 18 March 2018 the Minister laid a wreath at a monument in Tibnin to remember the forty seven Irish men who died while serving with UNIFIL.

Minister Kehoe said that:

Ceunant Llennyrch National Nature Reserve near Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, Wales has been referred to as a Celtic rainforest because of its humid conditions and variety of wildlife. It is seen as one of  Europe’s most spectacular oak woodlands. Now the Reserve has been massively extended. The original 12-hectare reserve, on one side of the gorge, is managed by Natural Resources Wales. Now, the Woodland Trust’s 300 hectares of land on the other side of the gorge has won National Nature Reserve status.

The House of Binns, is the former home of General Tam Dalyell and is now managed by the National Trust For Scotland. The house we now see dates from the early 17th century, but is built on the site of previous manor houses. It is thought that Binns Hill was inhabited from prehistoric times and may have been the site of a Pictish fort. The House of Binns eventually came into the possession of the Dalyell family. Dalyell is a Scottish surname which derives from the Scottish Gaelic Dail-gheal meaning bright dale.