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DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST (DUP) ministers will return to the power-sharing Stormont executive after a British government-ordered review dismissed their claims that the IRA had reactivated.
The independent assessment found that all the main republican and loyalist groups, including the Provisional IRA, still exist, but that their leaders are committed to peace.
The review, ordered after the shooting of alleged dissident republican Kevin McGuigan in August, said that an IRA “provisional army council” remains in place and that IRA members believe that ruling body “oversees” Sinn Fein’s strategy.
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