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SINN FEIN demanded a referendum on Irish reunification yesterday in the wake of Thursday’s Leave victory in the EU vote.
The republicans seized on the 56 per cent support for the Remain campaign in Northern Ireland — against the tide of the UK-wide 52 per cent Leave victory — to demand their own plebiscite on ending the island’s division.
Stormont Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness issued the call, echoed by Sinn Fein MEP Martina Anderson.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
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