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BRITAIN’S Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire said yesterday that snap elections to the Stormont assembly are still likely despite unionists trying to buy their way out of the crisis.
He spoke after Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Communities Minister Paul Givan reversed his cut to a £50,000 bursary scheme for children to visit the Irish-speaking regions of Ireland.
The outgoing deputy first minister, Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, accused the DUP of “crude and crass bigotry” towards Irish-speakers in his resignation on Monday, which was prompted by DUP First Minister Arlene Foster’s refusal to quit over the £490 million Renewable Heat Incentive fiasco.
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