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Cymru / Kernow News Items

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SUPPORT THIS PETITION:

The Welsh Branch of the Celtic League has again called for support to St David’s Day a National holiday in Wales.

A petition launched by Plaid Cymru on 24th February, 2015 has been published on the Branch’s Facebook account with a call for support. Members of other Branches have been signing the petition in a show of solidarity with the Welsh.

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Guild Stance from Deeply Committed and Distinguished Manxman

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Manx Music Festival Organisers have been quick in responding to a decision by a competitor to quit over sponsorship of this year’s event (see link):

Mann: Consternation and Applause at Guild

The Festival Chairman Graham Crowe was dismissive of the ‘protester’.

However, the decision to both reject and dismiss the stance of the man involved, Stewart Bennett, may yet come back to haunt the organisers.

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Mann: Landfill Leachate Disposal Query

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As a spin-off from the contaminated Harbour Silt row which has exercised people (and groups) on the Isle of Man recently the Celtic League has asked the Manx Chief Minister for details about discharges into the Marine environment.

The discharges involve leachate from a disused landfill site near Peel on the Islands west coast which are drawn off by tanker at the landfill and then disposed into the sea outfall off Peel.

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Goddard Inquiry Urged to Extend Remit

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The Celtic League has urged the Goddard Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to include two additional items in its remits.

The League say events at the Kincora Home in Northern Ireland in the 1970s should be probed despite the reluctance of the UK Home Secretary to include them in the remit.

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Mann: Let’s Get Real!

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Two stories running on Manx Radio news today would seem to beg the question has the Isle of Man become a ‘cacotopian’ society i.e. ‘not a good place’.

Of course, I don’t mean in terms of its environment (although the government seems set on undermining that) or the general good neighbourliness of its people but rather the way government and institutions of government behave.

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Dungavel: Questions from League to UK Border Agency

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The Celtic League is pressing the United Kingdom Border Agency for answers after a group of Scottish Trade Unionists and Religious Groups were denied access to the controversial Dungavel Immigration Detention Centre in Scotland.

The Centre has frequently been in the news most notoriously because of the practice of incarcerating very young children there.

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Mann: For Whom the Bell Tolls

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“Guild” protest sends wider signal to Banks, Offshore Companies, E-Gaming, Developers and even Government that not everyone can be bought!

It was just a few simple words “Gow-jee my leshtal agh cha nel mee arryltagh goaill ayrn jeh’n cho-hirrey shoh kindagh rish yn raantys noa – I am sorry but I am withdrawing from this competition in protest at the organiser’s choice of sponsorship.”

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Mann: Consternation and Applause at Guild

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Manx speaker publicly withdraws in protest over competition sponsorship.

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Mann: Thanks for Feedback – Keep It Coming!

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This news post is primarily directed at those people in Mann who have taken the trouble to contact the Celtic League and provide feedback in recent weeks.

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Registers: Tighten Regulations Call

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Alleged irregularities involving Manx shipping and aircraft registers led to a call for regulations to be tightened at the Celtic League AGM in Dublin earlier this month.

A resolution (text below) was adopted and has been sent to the DED Minister:

“The Minister for Economic Development
Mr Laurence Skelly MHK
Department of Economic Development
St Georges Court
Upper Church Street
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM1 1EX