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Mann: ‘All Quiet on the Prestwick Front’

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No news yet about how the British Military ‘Reserve Forces’ initiative (FR2020) in the Isle of Man is going, although the media blitz (pun) has been intensive and IOM newspapers are lapping up the advertising. (It’s good to see some of the Isle of Man’s Defence Contribution coming back into the local community?)

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Alba: Fair Isle Tanker Incident Highlights MCA Weakness

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This morning a large oil tanker, the MV Emerald Spirit, was left without engine power and drifted for an hour in the Fair Isle Channel she was on passage to Norway.

Fortunately the weather was good, the vessel soon restarted, and the incident resolved quickly and quietly.

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Kernow: ‘Nation or Country’ Responses

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Kernow Branch: replies being received following report submission ‘County, Duchy, Nation or Country?’

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Ó Bradaigh Summer School: Focus On Contemporary Struggles

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The Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Summer School takes place on June 6th in Roscommon. The theme of this, the second one, will be to place contemporary struggles in Ireland in the context of 1916 (see below).

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Dungavel: Home Office Respond on ‘Istanbul Protocol’ Query

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The Celtic League has received a response from UK Home Office Immigration Enforcement following our query about the Dungavel immigration removal centre in Scotland.

We wrote to the UK Border Agency in early May asking if medical staff employed at the Centre are trained to standards set under the United Nations Istanbul Protocol.

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Breton News Report

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We are always keen to report on events in Brittany and reinforce the ties within the Celtic League to that country.

In many ways the Bretons face the greatest challenges of all the Celtic people being dominated by the ‘dead-hand’ of authoritarian and centralist French governments. It is therefore important that we maintain strong links and underpin the solidarity of the other Celtic countries with the struggle of Breton nationalists.

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Don’t Knock It! Free Speech Is A Great Thing

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There has been a burgeoning of social media sites in Mann in recent years (even the CL Mannin Branch eventually entered the fray on Facebook and Twitter) and it has been no bad thing.

While social media has not replaced mainstream media (yet) it is a useful adjunct to it.

In other jurisdictions there have on occasions been controversies about abuse of social media sites particularly in relation to political attacks on opponents.

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Were We So Arrogant that We Thought Child Abuse Did Not Happen Here?

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It has been revealed that there were a number of child abuse allegations involving the Isle of Man in a report released by the Methodist Church recently.

Coincidentally, six years ago (May 2008) we wrote to former Chief Minister Tony Brown suggesting the retrospective audit of child care on the Isle of Man saying:

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Army and Security Services Dark Past Back to Haunt Them

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‘Of course the British Government has apologised but that apology is too late for many’

This will be a very brief post just to confirm to our critics the ‘bad news’ that the Celtic League has been proved right again!

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Did ‘Smeargate’ Go Further? Watch This Interview

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Did ‘Smeargate’ go further than Alistair Carmichael and his aide? Well according to David Mundell, current Scottish Secretary, it did not.

Mundell should be in the know as he worked in the Scottish Office with Carmichael at the time that Carmichael launched the carefully planned attempt to discredit SNP Leader and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, which has since ‘blown up in his face’.