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Nuclear Waste Transport Call for Review

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The Celtic League has written to both the IMO and IAEA urging that action is taken to ensure vessels which undertake the transportation of nuclear waste are more safety resilient.

The issue was an agenda item at the recent AGM in Dublin with delegations from several countries extremely critical of lax safety standards which culminated in a fire on board a nuclear waster transport from Dounreay to Belgium .

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Ireland: Military Pact with UK Condemned

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The Celtic League has written to the Irish Government to condemn the recent bi-lateral agreement reached between Ireland and the United Kingdom covering military training.

The issue was the subject of a resolution agreed at the recent League AGM in Dublin .

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IRELAND: DOD APPEAR TO CONDONE ABUSE OF UNDER AGE RECRUITMENT BY UK MILITARY

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The Celtic League has had a response from the Department of Defence (DoD) (Ireland) to a query we raised about the potential recruitment of under eighteen year old Irish Nationals into the UK armed forces (see link):

https://www.celticleague.net/news/uk-military-recruitment-in-ireland-opp...

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KERNOW: BIZARRE TWISTS AND TURNS AS ELECTION TURNS NASTY

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The run up to the Westminster General Election set for Thursday 7th May, 2015 is well underway and as with elsewhere in the other Celtic Nations, campaigning is taking some bizarre twists and turns in Kernow some sadly tainted with outright nastiness.

Continuing our reprise of articles on Beltane - Originally posted April 27, 2014 by Emmett McIntyre. The 2015 Festival begins tonight, 30 April,  at 8:30 in Edinburgh :

Originally Posted to Transceltic on April 16, 2014, by Emmett McIntyre

The Celtic year is divided by the four annual Celtic Feast Days which are celebrated on the first of the month: the November Celtic New Year of Samhain (Halloween), Imbolg which was also the Feast Day of the Celtic Goddess Brigid in February, the May Spring Festival of Beltane and the August Harvest Festival of Lughnasa.

The highly successful WOSAT Arts Festival will be returning to the west of the Island this year during the early May Bank Holiday weekend, with an exciting platform with which to promote both artists and the visual arts on the Isle of Man.

Organised by The Creative Network, last year's event recorded excellent visitor numbers, which has prompted the group to include additional ideas and widen the creative experience for both artists and visitors.

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Celtic League News App Launched

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To stay up-to-date with Celtic League news download our new, free app for Android and have news items delivered directly to your phone or tablet! You can download the app directly by clicking here.

28/04/2015

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IRISH SUPREME COURT RULING MAY HAVE WIDER REFERENDA IMPLICATIONS

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‘GANGS AND COUNTER GANGS’ AUTHOR SUED OVER TROUBLES DEATH

Kitson’s other and better known work ‘Low Intensity Operations’ became the ‘mantra’ for counter-insurgency operations in the British Army

A retired senior British Army Officer is to be sued in connection with the death of a Catholic worker murdered by paramilitaries in N. Ireland 40 years ago (see link):