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TRADE unions welcomed Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams’s outreach to unionists yesterday — but challenged him to clarify his vision of a united Ireland.
Speaking at a Sinn Fein conference on the constitutional question in Belfast on Saturday, Mr Adams said a vote for unification could come in a “few short years” if unionist opposition to a new Ireland was “unlocked.”
The party president admitted that the recent UK general election, in which the DUP and Sinn Fein took all but one of the 18 seats in Northern Ireland, showed a “deep political schism.”
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
