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Brexit Minister David Frost looks on as Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement at 10 Downing Street, Westminster
ANY notion that Brexit is disappearing as a major political issue in Britain seems to be contradicted almost every day.
Today, it was the turn of the North of Ireland to propel the issue into the news headlines, with Brexit Minister David Frost admitting that the British government has underestimated the impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol on trade relations between the province and the rest of the UK.
Yet the problems that would arise from trying to square this particular circle could have been clearly forseen.
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