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BRITAIN’S Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire said yesterday that snap elections to the Stormont assembly are still likely despite unionists trying to buy their way out of the crisis.
He spoke after Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Communities Minister Paul Givan reversed his cut to a £50,000 bursary scheme for children to visit the Irish-speaking regions of Ireland.
The outgoing deputy first minister, Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, accused the DUP of “crude and crass bigotry” towards Irish-speakers in his resignation on Monday, which was prompted by DUP First Minister Arlene Foster’s refusal to quit over the £490 million Renewable Heat Incentive fiasco.
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
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