Celtic Recipes

Langouet in Brittany is just a small town of 600 people but its Major is in trouble for defying the central authorities. He’s banned pesticides and he and his fellow citizens are taking other unilateral steps to protect their environment.

As the immanence of Brexit focuses concern on the possibility of a hard border in Ireland the inherent danger has become apparent with a sophisticated attack on the PSNI near Wattlebridge in Fermanagh.

Roads in the area were closed yesterday and RTE reports that as police and security forces were dealing with one device another exploded nearby. Apparently the initial device was a hoax.

Link here to a report by RTE:

https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/0819/1069611-explosion-in-fermanagh/

Darach Ó Séaghdha is an Irish writer, podcaster and Irish language activist. Interestingly his parents spoke to him English whilst they conversed in Gaelic. A sadly familiar root cause of Gaelic's demise. He is the author of " Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language"which won the Ireland AM Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year in the 2017 Irish Book Awards.

Whilst anger in communities around the North Irish Sea about pollution of nuclear waste from Sellafield is muted these days in France the parallel problem of the (smaller) reprocessing facility at Cap de la Hague in Normandy is still a focus of protest.

The Breton news site ‘7seizh’ reports (translation):

“Friday, August 16, the flagship Rainbow Warrior and Greenpeace activists left the port of Cherbourg early in the morning towards Cape Hague, one of the most nuclearized areas in the world.