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NORTHERN IRELAND went to the polls yesterday in a snap election after the power-sharing executive collapsed over a white-elephant green initiative.
Party leaders cast their votes in their constituencies in the election for a new Legislative Assembly at Stormont.
The prospect of direct rule from Westminster looms if no new coalition government emerges from the elections.
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
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH