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Tory MP Johnny Mercer
JOHNNY MERCER has withdrawn his support for Theresa May’s government over what he called the “injustice” of Northern Ireland veterans being prosecuted for Troubles-era offences.
The Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View made the move despite police statistics contradicting his claim that there was a “witch-hunt” against former British soldiers.
In his letter to the Prime Minister on Wednesday night, Mr Mercer said the “macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland … is too much.”
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
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
