A PRISON officer in Northern Ireland required surgery yesterday after a bomb went off under his van as he was driving to work.
Dissident republicans were blamed for the attack in the Hillsborough Drive area, off Woodstock Road in loyalist east Belfast.
It appeared that the bomb had been put under the vehicle before the father of three left home in the morning.
JOE DWYER of Sinn Fein reflects on the links between the Irish and Cuban struggles for independence and on Castro’s personal engagement with the cause of Irish freedom
From Barry McGuigan and Carl Frampton to Tyrone McKenna and Lewis Crocker, the city’s fighters carry a complex history into the ring, writes JOHN WIGHT
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



