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News from the Celtic League:

The late Dr Brian Stowell was a long time member of the Celtic League and a contributor to Carn it's journal almost from its inception in the early 1970s. Brian and his commitment to the Celtic movement is often seen as synonymous with the Celtic languages he taught both Irish and Manx and was pivotal to the formal inclusion of Manx language education in the teaching curriculum in Mann.

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I wrote a recent item at the end of last year ‘The Turn of the Year and Memories’ posted on our CL Mannin Facebook ages and on the main Celtic League website

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2607790599269685&id=80...

https://www.celticleague.net/…/the-turn-of-the-year-and-me…/

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We reported back in August about Isabel dos Santos she’s a nice wealthy lady from Angola who had invested in property in London using Manx business connections.

Many Angolans struggle on subsistence earnings as the country tries to shake of the legacies of decades of colonial exploitation and Civil War,.

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Report here in the Irish Times about the decline of Bewick Swans in Ireland the species now winter further north in Germany as temperatures are warmer:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/swan-census-part-of-european...

Link here to a trailer and also the full Welsh documentary ‘Poncho Mamgu’. It's a drama documentary (with subtitles) about the life of Elen Davies first as a child in Patagonia and later as a young woman in Wales.

It tells the story of the hardship faced by the early Welsh settlers in the Chubut Valley area of Argentina. The Death of her mother and the friendship and sympathy shown to her by the indigenous Indian people of the area.

Link here to a trailer and also the full Welsh documentary ‘Poncho Mamgu’. It's a drama documentary (with subtitles) about the life of Elen Davies first as a child in Patagonia and later as a young woman in Wales.

It tells the story of the hardship faced by the early Welsh settlers in the Chubut Valley area of Argentina. The Death of her mother and the friendship and sympathy shown to her by the indigenous Indian people of the area.

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Back in 1999, an article in the 'New York Times' concluded with this memorable piece:

''The Isle of Man is streets ahead of other jurisdictions in this area,'' said John R. Aspden, head of the island's Financial Supervision Commission. But the entanglement with Russia still rankles. ''Is the Isle of Man a satellite of Russia?'' he said. ''Of course, it's not.''

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Books I’m trying to divest myself of them - then Paul Moulton at MTTV pops up interviewing Steve Rodan (President of Tynwald) about a bursary for young people to attend the UN in Geneva and of I go - not to Geneva!

On my bookshelf is a tome purchased two decades ago and read by me only once its about Seán Lester, ‘The Last Secretary General’ of the League of Nations, I dig it out.

“A group known as the Hooded Men have won the latest stage of a legal battle to force an investigation into alleged torture by the security forces in 1971.

The Court of Appeal in Belfast dismissed an appeal by police against a ruling that detectives should revisit a decision to end their inquiry.
Fourteen men claimed they were subjected to torture after being held without trial in Northern Ireland.

The dismissal of the police appeal was a majority decision by the judges.

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The BBC highlights a crash by a Belgian military jet in Brittany (near Lorient). The incident was sensational in that one of the aircrew who ejected was trapped on high voltage wires. He has since been rescued safely.