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Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy (left), Mary Lou McDonald (centre) and Michelle O'Neill at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast in November
IRELAND’S Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald reaffirmed the party’s abstentionist policy in a speech yesterday to commemorate the centenary of the first woman to be elected to Westminster.
She was responding to the demands of Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, who has called on Sinn Fein to take up its seats in the British Parliament and take part in tomorrow’s crucial parliamentary vote on Theresa May’s Brexit deal.
Sinn Fein MPs in the north of Ireland contest elections but refuse to take their seats in the British Parliament as a point of principle.
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