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It’s the old adage ‘you wait for a bus and then two come along at once’. It seems it’s the same with allegations of impropriety involving the Island’s financial services agency.

First we had Mick Wallace TD standing up in the Dail and alleging murky dealings involving NAMA’s North of Ireland portfolio and a mysterious bank account.

Now we have the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation airing its misgivings about Manx financial affairs.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

‘some of the Chessmen are ‘home’, but the Chronicles continue to moulder in the British Library ignored by a Manx government to craven to demand their return!’

Six pieces from Lewis chess set have been returned to Scotland to go on permanent display at a new museum near Stornoway.

Of the 93 artefacts that comprise the Lewis hoard which was found at Uig bay on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 82 are held in the British Museum and 11 in the National Museum of Scotland

Later this month there's an opportunity to celebrate the linguistic, musical and cultural Gaelic links as one language between the sister nations at a special Manx launch at the Centenary Centre in Peel.

This unique collaboration, bringing together expressive vocals from three of the Gaelic nations as one voice, re-unites the Scottish, Irish and Manx Gaels for the first time in centuries.

Communiqué de l’Union Démocratique Bretonne du 10 septembre 2015

Kemennadenn Unvaniezh Demokratel Breizh d’an 10 a viz Gwengolo 2015

“BARRONS LA ROUTE AU FASCISME EN TURQUIE”

The Thirty-Nine Steps was written by Scottish Perth (Scottish Gaelic:Peairt ) born author John Buchan (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940). On its 100th anniversary the National Library of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba) has unveiled a new celebration of one of Scotland’s most iconic and influential novels. The novel first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915. Then was published in book form in October of the same year. Since then the book has had lasting appeal. In 1935 Alfred Hitchcock brought it to the big-screen.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

The decision to rename the Millennium Stadium in Caerdydd (Cardiff), Cymru (Wales) the Principality Stadium, undermines the constitutional status of the country.

Cymru is a nation in its own right and even though the renaming of the Millenium Stadium stems from a 10 year sponsorship deal with the Cardiff-based Principality building society, the ramifications of the name has wider implications.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

‘IOMPLC is in everyone’s interest’ No it’s not!

“We acknowledge that any projection of population growth and its broader impact on the economy – no matter how carefully it is calculated – will be subject to a degree of uncertainty. However, we strongly believe that the Draft Strategic Plan should be based on (and support) Government’s aims and objectives for growth in jobs and, therefore, population too.”

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

You have to ask yourself at times if the Isle of Man Government is collectively ‘As Mad as a drove of March Hares’.

At any given time there are anything up to 15 - 20 government consultations on the go and some of the current ones are real ‘stonkers’.

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Why was there a gap of several months the collision between a Royal Navy submarine and the MFV Karen and the MOD owning up?

Well the most likely explanation was that the submarine was a ballistic missile of Trident Sub (SSBN) departing on patrol or one of the hunter-killer types that sometimes shadow them. Such patrols last between three and four months and during that time unless there is a dire emergency no communication with base is undertaken by either submarine under any circumstances.

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE

The ripples from the allegations about NAMA portfolio deals in the North of Ireland by Mick Wallace and his allegations about multi-million pound deposits into Manx bank accounts related to paying of politicians continue to swirl.

There’s literally a plethora of investigations in Ireland North and South and involving the UK National Crime Agency. Of course everyone is denying any wrong doing and Wallace has gone strangely quiet in respect of promised future revelations.