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NORTHERN IRELAND’S three main loyalist paramilitary forces vowed yesterday to combat criminality and sectarian violence in their ranks.
The Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando are supporting the formation of a Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) to promote social progress.
The LCC will focus on “law abiding responses to criminality,” as well as addressing loyalist “disenfranchisement” from the political process and increasing educational standards in loyalist communities.
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
