AMNESTY International called yesterday for urgent agreement between the British, Irish and Northern Irish governments on a new approach to dealing with the past.
The human rights organisation is calling for a comprehensive mechanism to be set up to review the Troubles as a whole and establish the truth about outstanding human rights violations.
“The current system for addressing the Troubles in Northern Ireland is not meeting the needs of victims or justice,” said Amnesty Northern Ireland programme director Patrick Corrigan.
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
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



