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ONE of the most divisive figures in Northern Ireland politics, Ian Paisley, has died following a long illness, it was confirmed yesterday.
The former leader and founder of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Mr Paisley was reviled by nationalists and republicans as a sectarian bigot whose incendiary rhetoric deliberately exacerbated tensions.
His establishment of an armed paramilitary organisation, the Third Force, as well as his frequent and vitriolic attacks on the Catholic Church and his infamous “Save Ulster from Sodomy” campaign did little to change that opinion.
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
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