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A TRANCHE of newly released documents has shed further light on the extent to which the Establishment was aware of collusion by state security forces and British armed forces in Northern Ireland.
The previously secret papers released today show that one of Northern Ireland’s top judges, Lord Justice Weir, believed the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was “worse and more sectarian” during the 1980s than it had been for decades.
They also show that in a private conversation with the Irish ambassador Noel Dorr in 1986, Mr Weir expressed the opinion that the controversial Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) existed as a “safety valve” to appease Protestant anger.
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