ULSTER Unionists claimed yesterday that allegations of a reactivated IRA should justify excluding Sinn Fein from Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) threatened to tear up the key clause of the Good Friday Agreement over claims that former IRA members murdered dissident republican Kevin McGuigan two weeks ago.
Its announcement followed the Ulster Unionist Party’s threat on Wednesday to quit the Stormont executive over the issue.
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


