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Social Side of AGM Provides a Valuable Function

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It was not all scrutiny of minutes and finances or consideration of wordy resolutions when the Celtic League held its AGM this weekend in Dublin the social side of such events also provides a valuable function.

AGM host countries invariably plan a social evening and generally also an event (or events) to show case their culture and tradition. In that regard this years Irish hosts were not found wanting.

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Celtic League Selects Its Team for the Year Ahead

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The Celtic League held its Annual General Meeting this weekend in Dublin at the Headquarters of Conradh na Gaeilge at Harcourt Street, Dublin.

The meeting held working sessions on Friday 10th April (Evening) and Saturday 11th (April) full day with social events on the Sunday (Afternoon) in the Dublin area for visiting delegates.

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More Tynwald Arrangements Concerns

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A frequent visitor to the Isle of Man who has studied its language and culture has expressed his reservations about potential changes mooted by the Tynwald Ceremony Arrangements Committee (TCAC) in relation to the annual National Day on July 5th.

Tom Hanley from Dublin says in a letter to the Committee says:

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Mann: ‘Sceptred Isle’ Being Turned into a Giant Cash-Point for Government

They’re arrogant, self serving, politically narcissistic and they want to empty your pocket. When will the worms turn? Other jurisdictions produce non-violent civil disobedience when will Manx people decide enough is enough

What do you do about a government that stopped listening that arrogantly piles charge after charge on the public whilst pretending the opposite is the case?

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League Support Nationalist Concerns Over Tynwald Day

The Celtic League has supported concerns articulated by Mec Vannin (the Manx Nationalist Party) about the increasing commercialisation of the National Tynwald Day ceremony at St Johns on July 5th.

Me Vannin recently wrote to the Tynwald Ceremony Arrangements Committee (link);

https://www.facebook.com/MecVanninOfficial/posts/444118375763888:0

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League Memoire – a Time for Reflection

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It’s useful from time to time to reflect on just where the Celtic League is at, what it’s done and how it will perform in the future. Certainly there’s a lot to discuss at this years AGM in Dublin, so I suggest as well as looking forward we should also look back!

With that in mind I thought I would look back on what for me were some of the more memorable issues and successes over the years.

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Defence Ministers Responds to Irish Branch Concerns Over Military Pact

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Ireland’s Defence Minister has responded to concerns expressed by An Conradh Ceilteach (the Irish Branch of the Celtic League) when a Defence Agreement (memorandum of Understanding) was signed, in January 2015, between Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The branch Convenor Cathal O’Luain wrote to the Minister in January setting out the ‘total opposition’ of the branch to the military pact.

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CPT Respond on Nuclear Police but HMIC Still Evasive

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The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has responded to a letter from the Celtic League.

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Mann: Concern About Storage of Toxic Silt and Haul Route

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The Celtic League have addressed a number of queries to the Manx Chief Minister about the storage of contaminated silt which cannot be deposed of at sea at an onshore site.

The League also ask about containment of the material in transit and also if the haul route passes a primary school on the exit road to the dump site.

Text of the queries below:

Fans of Manx trad power trio Barrule were out in force at the Centenary Centre in Peel to celebrate the Island launch of their latest CD Manannan's Cloak, a sequel to their award-winning eponymous debut album released in 2013.

It was a sell-out gig which attracted many fans who were already familiar with the trio's original style of music, which, along with other Manx singers and musicians, has pushed the Isle of Man into the spotlight in recent years.