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Having now been fully analysed, scientists have confirmed that remains of a new dog sized predator belong to a new dinosaur species. The bones were found in South Wales encased in sedimentary rock dating back 200 million years to the beginning of the Jurassic period. Drawing on the national symbol of Wales, Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon), the new species has been named Dracoraptor hanigani. A name which also reflects fossil hunters Nick and Rob Hanigan who found the remains. The skeleton is now on display at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff (Amgueddfa Cymru).

The Northeast Florida Scottish Games and Festival is to be held on February 27, 2016.  It is one of the largest single day Scottish games held in the United Sates. Attendance in recent years has topped 30,000 and these numbers are typical of the surging popularity of Celtic cultural events in North America.

News From Kernow Matters To You

Easter 2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin and massive celebrations are set to occur in Ireland as this marked the defining moment in Ireland's struggles for independence.

Events here: http://www.visitdublin.com/see-do/details/easter-rising-centenary/510660/#53.349805|-6.260310|16

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

Support for an independent homeland is core to the aspirations of Celtic peoples beliefs. This year Celtic people throughout the Six Celtic Nations of Alba, Breizh, Cymru, Éire, Kernow, Mannin and beyond celebrate the the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), the armed rising in Ireland. In the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798 Irish republicans mounted the rising to end British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic.

News From 'Kernow Matters To Us'

Following a written, formal complaint made by 'Kernow Matters to Us' (KMTU) Team to the Editorial Team of the Daily Express in London, which concerned offensive and racist postings made by some members of public written beneath an article on the Cornish language, the offensive postings have been withdrawn in their entirety and the posters banned.

In making the complaint, KMTU informed the Daily Express that offensive remarks made about Cornish people would not be tolerated and that a zero tolerance policy had been adopted.

Press Release from Culture Vannin

Free Public Lecture:  'In search of the beginnings of Manx Literature'

Chapel, Stable Block, Nunnery, Old Castletown Road

Saturday, 23rd January at 2pm

In 2014 the long overdue designation of the Cornish people as a national minority in Britain under the Council of Europe's "Framework Convention on National Minorities" was announced. Mebyon Kernow - The Party for Cornwall at its first Party Executive meeting of 2016 has demanded action to give substance to this recognition. 

News From Kernow Matters To You:

So says Kevin Cahill, FRSA who is an author and investigative journalist, living in Devon, England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a full professional Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a House of Lords scholar and researcher with no Cornish nationalist axe to grind.

Kevin Cahill: "The Second Domesday" (2013).

Celtic Connections is the largest, winter music festival of its kind and the UK's premier celebration of Celtic music, and this year will include a number of top traditional musicians from the Isle of Man.

This is not the first time that the Island has been represented in Glasgow's annual, folk, roots and world music festival, but this year the Manx will be making their mark with local favourites Mec Lir and Manx Gaelic singer Ruth Keggin.