I sat in a Foundation meeting with a group of Celtic fans on Saturday, it is beyond credible what is done in our name – and there’s much more to come.
Last week the Foundation appointed a Disability Sports Ambassador, while earlier this month, we saw the opening of Celtic Park Haiti, a magnificent assistance project in one of the world’s poorest countries. In the first week of this month the Foundation made news across the globe for leading the way in their response to the refugee crisis (well, the Washington Post covered it, even if some in our own backyard didn’t).
September started with the news that CLIC Sargent’s new Home from Home in Glasgow opened with the assistance of a £60k donation of your money. CLIC offer support for families coping with child cancer.
All this, just in September!
Ambition for the Foundation is limited to the practicalities of what’s possible to deliver. To this end, several dozen of us have signed up to compete (cough) for the Foundation in the Great Scottish Run on Sunday. For most of us, it takes many months’ hard work to get to the point that you’re lining up in George Square with 10k or a half marathon ahead of you.
I’m running the half marathon, my first time at an event over 10k (only done 3 of those). It’s been a summer on the roads, the highlight of which was the fastest recorded run up Airbles Road. Running in a Celtic T-shirt through a crowd watching an Orange Walk puts more energy in the legs than any amount of carb loading.
There are lots of ways you can participate in the work:
Here, for my linked donation page.
If you are doing the GSR for the Foundation and would like a shout out for donations, email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com
Many thanks for your help, it’s appreciated.
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i’vehadtochange
Have a quick switch to BBC One. It’s about Dundee – Hilltown
NowThatIsScary csc
Good to see Hebcelt back,gentleman
Got a text about a horse tomorrow at Ayr
Raise a billion 15-50 Ayr
8/1 at the Minute
HH
Welcome Home Hebcelt. The good ghuys are retaking CQN. Huns & Trolls beware.
Hebcelt…
That sounds painful, luckily I’m only 24 and have still to have those problems.
Hopefully the pain will disperse and you will get back to normal.
Hebcelt…
Actually 53. Just trying lighten your load.:))
The Washington post can cover it and our media can’t. The hurt they have is palpable. Round them. Filth. C’mon the tic.
Almore is that the Killie game? I should be at that one. Many thanks for the positive vibes. H H Hebcelt.
Cloghercelt: And a big thank you to Art of War too.
Things are coming along nicely now. Easter 2016 in Dublin will be brilliant.
dublin2016@mail.com
Off to mo leaba.
One of my dad’s sisters will be buried tomorrow in Celbridge. Úna RIP
Hebcelt: yes. Maybe meet up in BV for prematch refreshments.
Oíche Maith.
Úna
God rest you
HH
blantyretim.
I was just about to press the post comment when the phone rang, Guess who, that Polish Basta That we’re friendly with, had a long talk tonight,Trying to get him to come over for the Home game with Ajax, I told him to let me know quickly as I’d have to get him a ticket, He’ll tell me in four days hopefully.
Running up Airbles road in a marathon with a Celtic top on burning up calories while totally willfully ignorant brutal hunnery watches on.
That’s hysterical! So funny!! Man are we Celtic supporters defiant or what eh?
Tell ye what’s even funnier
Our own board signing the 5 way agreement in anonymity and promoting the old firm and consequently…… The lifeblood of orange walks
Muck Fee
You couldn’t make this shit up…..
So Gers are we
Whose lives are pledged to
….. Something avoiding our corporate legacy
Almore,
Thanks again. I will think about your family tomorrow.
HH,
Clogher
HH CQN
just coming in from the lurk to post a human rights appeal if that’s ok.
Scroll on by if its not
:-)
Saudi Arabia is about to behead a 21-year-old man and then crucify him to display his body in public.
A prisoner in Saudi Arabia, who was sentenced to death as a child, faces “death by crucifixion” after a final appeal has been dismissed. Ali Mohammed al-Nimr was arrested on 14 February 2012 when he was just 17, during a crackdown on anti-government protests in the Shiite province of Qatif. He was accused by the authorities of participation in illegal protests and of firearms offences, despite there being no evidence to justify the latter charge.
Ali was initially held at a juvenile offenders facility, where he was denied access to lawyers. Evidence indicates that he was tortured and forced to sign a document which was tantamount to a confession. The signed document formed the basis of the case against him and he was convicted of the alleged offences by the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC). However, the trials failed to meet international standards. Ali and his family have strongly denied the charges against him, but, after the final appeal – which was held in secret and without Ali’s knowledge – was dismissed, there are few legal options remaining to oppose the sentence originally handed down on 27 May 2014. It is feared that Ali could be executed in a matter of days.
The case against Ali appears to be based on his familial connection to Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a 53-year old critic of the Saudi regime and a prominent religious leader in the Kingdom, who is his uncle. Mr Al Nimr was sentenced to death by crucifixion on charges including ‘insulting the King’ and delivering religious sermons that ‘disrupt national unity’. This week, it emerged that the authorities plan to execute Ali’s uncle on Thursday (17 September) sparking fears that his nephew will also be killed.
Human rights organization Reprieve has urged the European Union to intervene with Saudi Arabia to prevent the killings.
Commenting on the inhumane and unjust sentence, Maya Foa, Director of the death penalty team at legal charity Reprieve said: “No one should have to go through the ordeal Ali has suffered – torture, forced ‘confession,’ and an unfair, secret trial process, resulting in a sentence of death by ‘crucifixion.’ But worse still, Ali was a vulnerable child when he was arrested and this ordeal began. His execution – based apparently on the authorities’ dislike for his uncle, and his involvement in anti-government protests – would violate international law and the most basic standards of decency. It must be stopped.”
Ali is just one of a number of young protestors including Dawoud Hussain al-Marhoon, who have been sentenced to death following involvement in anti-government protests. In January 2015, prominent Saudi blogger Raif Al-Badawi received the first of 1000 lashes as part of his sentence for his statements criticising the Saudi regime in 2012.
In a post to the NGO’s website Foa added: “Saudi Arabia’s wave of executions since the start of this year has provoked widespread disgust. But these killings, if they are allowed to go ahead, will mark a new low.”
Despite global condemnation, the Saudi Government has continued to carry out executions at a high rate since King Salman came to power in January 2015. On May 6th 2015, the Kingdom carried out its 79th execution of the year, and it is already close to surpassing its 2014 total of 87 executions. The Saudi government maintains all cases are tried in accordance with Sharia law, and with strict fair trial standards observed.
According to Amnesty International Saudi Arabia has one of the highest execution rates in the world, with only China and Iran carrying out more judicial killings.
a petition to stop the beheading can be found here;
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_saudi_beheadings_loc/?bYtTGab&v=65557
HH
earlyrisesoofftobedcsc
Nobody do a Suarez
Saudis Arabia
Eh?
Beheadings?
Brutal dictatorship
Feudal medieval monarchy
Armed by the west and bombing its neighbors in Yemen
Armed by the west
Maybe we should sell them nuclear weapons too in case Iran gets uppity
Hebcelt,
Welcome back. You have been missed.
Clogher
Barrach
Saudi Arabia is a cesspit. …but it’s Americas pal so they can do what they like
Sickening really
WITS,
How are things?
Hope you are good.
Clogher
Barrach Obampot on 28th September 2015 10:26 pm
petition signed
probably wont do any good (unfortunately)
but wont do any harm
HH
I can guarantee you that if any officialdom in Saudia Arabia receives a western petition to spare an innocent from beheading not only is that poor sod doomed to die an even more horrific public execution but his family too
Did any of you half wits actually pay attention at school?
Mags
Bumped into your mother today god that woman loves me
xx
Margaret McGill, How on earth can you guarantee something like that. If there was any evidence of that nature it would have been highlighted all over the world.
Watched the KKK documentary. Couple of quotes from it..
‘Auschwitz was a holiday camp for the Jews, it even had a swimming pool’.
‘we were all white in the beginning but God cursed them for breeding with monkeys or apes’ (that one from the former grand dragon, sat in his hovel shack). And to think there were 4 million members in 1920s USA.
MARGARET MCGILL on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2015 10:54 PM
I can guarantee you that if any officialdom in Saudia Arabia receives a western petition to spare an innocent from beheading not only is that poor sod doomed to die an even more horrific public execution but his family too
If you think you can guarantee anything with regards Saudi Arabia ….. you are the half wit
this is the last time I will even read one of your posts let alone respond to one
SOAL
I know
Ok now when it comes to Saudia Arabia …. I cannot possibly be held responsible for the conceptual difficulties of every Cupid stunt that logs into CQN now can I?
Goodnight Timland
HH
Margaret McGill, When it comes to Saudi Arabia you know nothing more then the rest of us. You just like being controversial coming out with outlandish statements. Just like Dena, I’ll scroll on by your stuff from now on.
NatKnow on 28th September 2015 9:35 pm
Asked this this other night so apologies if someone replied and I missed it, but…..
How long has Sportscene had the “Rewind” segment? I’ve never seen it before – although to be fair I rarely watch the programme these days as I think it is awful. The fact that they chose such a pointless clip to show backs up my opinion. In my opinion
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It’s been going all season as part of the Sportscene at 40 thingy. They showed (predictably!) our defeat to ICT in 2000. Also the Motherwell – Dundee United cup final, but only the Motherwell goals! Also seem to recall an Aberdeen -Partick game from the mid 90s.
All seems a bit random really and could be either done better or not at all.
Cork Celt
Stick a fork in it
Or
Visit Saudia Arabia
Dena29
Yeah ok whatever
As this is Saudi night, did you know that wealthy Saudis are the major funders of IS?
Fritzsong
Yup
Did you know that 15 of the 19 9/11 bombers were Saudis?
+ 2 Egyptians + 1 UAE + 1 Lebanese
All quite spiffing countries with equal opportunity beheadings!
That’s it for me P67. I don’t suppose this will ever get near you.
It has all got too big and commercial. Been there since the start and it has mostly been magnificent. You should be proud. Sad that we have lost the characters.
I am sick of navigating through betting sites to get here. So I am out.
Saudias are we
Whose lives are pledged to iron
Swords!
Timgreen
I sympathize
What you state is true
However there is an adobe flash plugin memory leak that P67 needs to address with the adverts that screwing some browser/OS combinations
For example windows 8 and Firefox …. CQN …. Forget it