The education system in the north of Ireland has left behind a large section of the working-class population and nowhere more so than in the Protestant community.
23 July, 2021 00:59
The Greater Belfast Branch of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) welcomes the growing and necessary debate on an all-Ireland health service as an intrinsic part of the process of Irish reunification, which we believe would contribute to building trust and overcoming fears and division. Thereby putting the question of a united Ireland in a concrete form rather than just an aspiration. In particular we welcome the article by Seanín Graham – ‘All-island health-care services in spotlight’ (July 8).
The Covid pandemic has clearly demonstrated the critical role of, and the necessity for, a fully-funded and protected public health service. The health pandemic has clearly demonstrated that the existence of two healthcare systems and strategies in Ireland to continue is irrational, impractical and dangerous to public health.
North is now a lot less bloody but still an awful place politically 05 July, 2021 00:59
“Infamy, infamy they all have it infamy.” Those are the words that must have been running through Edwin Poots’s head as he scurried out of DUP headquarters after he was given the boot by his party colleagues. What an inglorious end to his 21-day reign as leader of the party. Now his colleague Paul Givan has been put on his notice, he is going to get the chop as Stormont’s first minister. His own da said he wasn’t up to the job anyhow.