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Nationalists from the mainly Catholic Springfield road area of West Belfast clash with police in Northern Ireland
IRISH President Michael D Higgins called on Saturday for an end to segregated education in the north of Ireland, saying it can no longer be justified following days of loyalist violence.
He said that educating pupils based on their religious background is “abandoning them to parcels of hate and memory that others are manipulating.
“Who in 2021 can justify the teaching of children separately on the basis of belief?” Mr Higgins asked. “Is it important, if you talk about an ethical present and an ambitious future, that you deal with it?”
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
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