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Newton Emerson: Unionist unity is not the solution NOTHING TO SEE HERE: DUP leader Arlene Foster and deputy leader Nigel Dodds insisted this week that the party was in good shape, despite its poor showing in the assembly election and unionism losing its majority at Stormont. PICTURE: Niall Carson/PA Newton Emerson. Irish News. Saturday, March […]
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Denzil McDaniel. Impartial Reporter. Enniskillen. Thursday, March 9, 2017In the famous poem “Easter, 1916” by WB Yeats, there’s a line which says “All changed, changed utterly.” The phrase came to my mind at the weekend, as I considered the significance of the Assembly election results.Perhaps, last week was nowhere near as dramatic or historic Northern Ireland has undergone massive change.Observing […]
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Rev. Ian Paisley before the local council elections in 1985Adam Kula. News Letter. Belfast. Saturday, March 11, 2017Ian Paisley has indicated the DUP’s anti-Sinn Fein tone in the run-up to the recent election contributed to the bad outcome for unionism, likening them to his own father’s hardline “Smash Sinn Fein” campaign of the 1980s.Mr. Paisley, DUP MP for North […]
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Unionist unity would almost certainly mean no opposition at Stormont. Picture By: Arthur Allison.Sam McBride. News Letter. Belfast. Saturday, March 11, 2017The most significant development within Unionism in the seven days since last week’s landmark election- result has not been the inevitable calls for unionist unity, but the debate about what form of Unionism such an electoral vehicle should […]
Posted By: March 11, 2017
A United Ulster Unionist Council victory march to Stormont led by Harry West, Ian Paisley and Bill Craig in 1974 Sam McBride. News Letter. Belfast. Saturday, March 11, 2017Just a week after the shock of unionism losing its Stormont majority, a former Ulster Unionist MP has made the first concrete proposal for unionist unity.Writing in today’s News Letter, former […]