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NORTHERN IRELAND’S chief constable joined Martin McGuinness an event in Republican west Belfast on Thursday night calling for for a new climate of reconciliation.
George Hamilton shared a stage with the Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister at a discussion event focusing on the legacy of the Troubles. It’s believed to be the first time a chief constable and a Sinn Fein leader have appeared on stage together.
The debate focused on the thousands of killings yet to be solved, allegations of past police wrongdoings, continuing failures to address sectarianism and division and the current threat posed by dissident republicans.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
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