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A protest, organised by the Irish language rights group Misneach, took place outside the Flying Enterprise Bar & Restaurant in the Irish City of Cork (Irish: Corcaigh) this afternoon. This comes after reports that an Irish speaker, Cormac Ó Bruic, from an Fheothanach in Corca Dhuibhne had left his job as a barman in the pub after the owner had told him that he did not want him speaking Irish on the premises.

News from the Celtic League:

Here’s a story that tries to prove that as Europeans were setting out for North America and ‘discovering’ the ‘New World’ at least some of its inhabitants had ‘discovered’ us first.

These voyages have just completed a crossing to prove that indigenous Inuit people from North America could have made the transatlantic passage the other way and probably did (link):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-372952…

News from the Celtic League:

‘Four Naval Service crew who saved up to 100 lives on board a patrol ship that caught fire off the south coast have been given military honours – more than half a century after the event.

Cdr Pat O’Mahony (86), able stoker Bill Mynes (73) and chief engine room artificer Maurice “Mossie” Egan (84) had to wait 54 years for their actions to be recognised by the military authorities.’

News from Mannin Branch Celtic League:

Celtic League Mannin branch have written to the United Kingdom Office for Nuclear Regulation addressing several queries prompted by the recent BBC Panorama programme which highlighted safety issues at the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

Text below:

“Dr Richard Savage
Chief Nuclear Inspector
and Director, Nuclear Directorate
4N.2 Redgrave Court
Merton Road
Bootle
L20 7HS

9th September 2016

Dear Sir,

News from the Celtic League:

The Celtic League has supported the campaign by the Chagos Islanders to return to their homelands for almost two decades.

The Islanders were summarily evicted from their homes in a secret deal between the UK and US to establish a military base at Diego Garcia on the isolated Indian Ocean archipelago.

There has been a broad range of International protest about the injustice inflicted on these people who were displaced many hundreds of miles to the island of Mauritius.

News from the Mannin Branch of the Celtic League:

Mannin branch environmental officer (Allen Moore) has reacted sharply to the controversy earlier this week about the shooting of seals off Scotland.

He says local fishermen are using seals as scapegoats and it is actually the predatory action of huge super trawlers from the EU and China that is destroying indigenous fishing communities globally.

Here is his statement:

News from the Celtic League:

There has been a call from animal welfare groups for the culling of seals in Scotland to be ended.

A report in the Scottish Sunday Herald says:

“ANIMAL welfare groups are demanding an end to the mass shooting of seals around Scotland's coast.

“Hundreds of the seals which have been shot so far were pregnant, feeding their young or failed to die instantly, according to a major new scientific study.

News from Mannin Branch Celtic League:

A potential tax evasion scandal involving the Isle of Man breaks today in the New York Times, his time involving a former French Treasury Minister. (see below):

News from the Celtic League:

A series of Wind Farm developments are planned for the Irish Sea and possible renewed oil and gas exploration. With this activity likely to expand it’s as well to realise that a dangerous legacy from firing ranges and munitions dumps litters the area from S W Scotland, off Jurby Isle of Man to the Holyhead Deep off Anglesey.

News from the Celtic League:

The firm vying to develop a new nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey has angered Welsh Language campaigners (link):

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/…/anglesey-nuclear-plant-develop…