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News From the The Australian Celtic Festival of Glen Inness.  See link below for additional information.

The Australian Celtic Festival in Glen Innes, Northern NSW is unique for its colour, spectacle and range of entertainment and history. An opportunity to meet with friends and experience our country hospitality.

The 2016 Australian Celtic Festival will honour the Isle of Man.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

It’s nice to stay in touch at Xmas even if the people you are staying in touch with can be – well a little rude!

Celtic League deals with all sorts of people from local Councils, Ministers to Prime Ministers and a plethora of agencies and bodies. Invariably you always get a very full response or at the very least an acknowledgement. We always try to be nice in return! I mean we even got a ‘positive’ response when we asked the CIA to change an entry in their (Isle of Man) country yearbook some years ago!

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

Some one forwarded a link to the ‘Ten most Radioactive Places on Earth’ and of course right up there on the list of shame is Seallafield. Here’s a quote from the site:

http://climateviewer.com/…/10-most-radioactive-places-on…/5/

‘The Welsh Government is committed to delivering high-quality health, social services and social care services that are centred on peoples’ needs. Our vision is to provide a service that will satisfy the needs of Welsh speakers and their families or carers, by ensuring that they are able to receive services in their own language through the care process. “– Welsh Government

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

There was understandably a big media focus on the destruction of the Welsh speaking community in the Tryweryn Valley to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the flooding of the valley to provide a reservoir for Liverpool. (see links):

https://www.celticleague.net/…/cymru-destruction-of-capel-…/

One of the highlights of the festive season is the much anticipated Mollag Ghennal, an evening of entertainment featuring a selection of some of the Island's best known Manx traditional singers and musicians.

Organised by the Mollag Band, it's a great opportunity to relax between cooking the Christmas turkey and celebrating the New Year and meet up with old friends.

Shifting sand dunes have uncovered a major new Bronze Age settlement in Orkney. Archaeologists from the University of the Highlands and Islands made the discovery on Sanday, a small island to the north of the Orkney mainland. Stone walls belonging to 14 houses have been found, which experts now believe could be one of the largest Bronze Age settlements ever found in Scotland. However, the 4000-year-old complex is threatened by coastal erosion and work is underway to find out as much as possible before it is destroyed.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

You may have forgotten the MV Parida (pictured below) we haven’t!

It was a Danish registered ro-ro cargo vessel on passage from Scrabster in Scotland to Antwerp, Belgium carrying nuclear waste when it caught fire in October 2014.

We raised the accident at the time with UK and Danish authorities. We also drew the attention of the International Atomic Energy Agency to the incident.

Now the nuclear material on board was ‘low grade’ but nonetheless it was nuclear material.