UNITE Ireland regional secretary Jimmy Kelly said today that the August 2014 Income Data Services (IDS) pay report highlighted the need for a new Northern Ireland industrial policy.
The IDS statistics identify the top 10 unemployment hotspots in Britain by local authority.
They demonstrate that Northern Ireland’s economy has suffered disproportionately since the 2008 banking crisis.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER


