THE appearance of masked men leading an illegal loyalist parade through Belfast on Thursday night was “sinister and concerning,” a Sinn Fein MP said today.
Loyalists gathered in the Woodvale district on Thursday evening before marching down the Shankill Road in protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol, a key part of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit agreement with the European Union that some loyalists believe undermines their Britishness.
Footage posted on social media showed the burning of a united Ireland banner that had been displayed on the nationalist side of the local peace wall earlier this year.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
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
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


