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SINN FEIN and the DUP looked set to clean up their respective sides of Northern Ireland’s sectarian divide as counting got under way in the snap election yesterday.
After the first round of voting in the single transferable vote election, republican Sinn Fein had taken 27.9 per cent and the Democratic Unionist Party 28.1 per cent.
But with the two erstwhile partners in the executive forswearing a return to a powersharing government, direct rule from Westminster loomed large.
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