A poster calling for 'No EU Frontier' on the border between the Republic of Ireland and the Six Counties
THE government must ensure that Britain’s departure from the European Union must not come with a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Unison has said.
Delegates at the union’s annual conference voted to demand that free borders across Ireland are kept intact in order to protect the Irish peace process.
They have also voted to campaign for a bilateral British-Irish treaty that can protect the rights of British and Irish nationals and establish a common travel area across Ireland.
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
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