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NORTHERN Irish leaders condemned Sunday night’s murder of loyalist paramilitary John “Bonzer” Boreland yesterday in an apparent internecine shooting.
The senior member of the dissident north Belfast group of the Ulster Defence Association was gunned down just before 10pm in Sunningdale Gardens in the unionist Ballysillan area.
His section, led by Egyptian-Irish loyalist “brigadier” Andre Shoukri, had been involved in local feuds with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
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
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