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The photographs below show a couple of brave protesters who went in to the building site during 18th March, 2021, while building was going on, to show what they thought about the utter desecration of this unique piece of landscape, a site that has been savagely cleared of the existing natural environment of a mixed and self-evolved ecology of mature trees, shrubs, plants, animals, birds and insects.

Cornwall Council Enforcement Team have intervened but the work continues and has shocked not only local residents but people from further afield.

According to a report in the British Times newspaper today (18th March 2021) the United Kingdom (UK) is seriously looking at establishing centres abroad where asylum seekers could be sent for processing. The article also suggests that the British overseas territory of Gibraltar is under consideration by officials, as well as the Isle of Man and other islands close to the British coast.

A handwritten copy of a song by Robert Burns, rediscovered in an album is about to be auctioned and could fetch between £8,000 - £12,000. Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was born in the Scottish village of  Alloway (Scottish Gaelic Allmhaigh) and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. The song is called The Banks of the Cree.

March 17th is both a religious holiday and a day of celebration for Irish people and those with an Irish connection around the world. Saint Patrick's Day festivities in 2021 are more retrained than normal in many places due to the coronavirus pandemic. For many this year it will be a day of quiet contemplation about the Saint himself and his works. Saint Patrick is the primary patron saint of Ireland and Saint Patrick's Day is oberved today 17 March, which is said to be the date of his death.

Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has apologised and retracted a claim that Sinn Féin has no Protestants as senior politicians. Sinn Féin is an Irish republican political party dedicated to the reunification of Ireland and an end to British jurisdiction in the north of Ireland. It is the joint largest party in the Dáil and the second-largest party in the Northern Assembly. Mr Varadkar made his remark that Sinn Féin had no Protestant politicians in the Dáil (Irish parliament) or in the Northern Ireland Assembly when speaking on RTÉ Radio's News At One programme.

There is an article published today by the Celtic League about the murder of Pat Finucane. In 1989 Pat Finucane (39) was shot dead by loyalists at his home in north Belfast. It happened in front of his wife Geraldine, who was also injured, and their children Michael, Katherine and John.  It was found that loyalist paramilitaries were acting in collusion with the British government intelligence services. It is not the only such case of murders by loyalist gangs said to be acting with the alleged connivance of British security agencies.

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On this day, 7th March 1921 two Limerick (Irish: Luimneach) mayors were brutally murdered by RIC Auxiliaries. The mayor of the city, George Clancy, was shot at his home in front of his wife in Castleview Gardens, close to the River Shannon. At around the same time, his predecessor as mayor, Michael O'Callaghan, was also shot dead at his home nearby. Both men were aged in their early 40s, nationalists, Irish speakers, volunteers, and GAA members.