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by James Tweedie
BELFAST loyalist paramilitary supergrass Gary Haggarty pleaded guilty yesterday to some 200 terrorist offences, including five murders.
Relatives of his victims looked on as the former Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) commander, who headed its notorious Mount Vernon unit in north Belfast, repeatedly answered guilty to the litany of charges put to him at the city’s crown court.
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
