Let us think back to the 2011 assembly elections. Peter Robinson was leader of the DUP, Brexit was only a dream for the little Englanders and Irish Unity was laughed at as an impossible fantasy. Now, only 10 years later, the DUP are in chaos, The “United Kingdom” has left the European Union and Irish...
Getting people registered to vote in an Irish Unity referendum. The efforts of the Irish Unity community over the last four years in engagement and communication with each other have been an important period in which we had discussions with fellow socialists, republicans, civic nationalists even unionists and loyalists, its brought us to this point....
YES for Unity support calls for a 22nd / 23rd May 2023 Irish Unity Referendum. Nothing focuses the mind like a deadline, it adds a sense of urgency, allows us to plan towards a goal and create the methodology for success.The Irish Unity community have been collectively engaged with the referendum debate for some time...
It has been 11 years ago now since the INLA finalised the end to their armed campaign, explaining they are now pursuing their objectives through exclusively peaceful and political means. That announcement in 2009 meant the 2 main Republican armed groups engaged in the conflict had called time on the armed struggle to achieve...
First of all, I don't want to be coming across as using the pain and suffering of victims for the purpose of political point scoring, secondly I would like to commend the families, victims and Sean Murray on his documentary Unquiet Graves that has exposed the British state sponsored murder and coverups to so...
Armed Republicanism This week has seen the other side of the Republican ideology making the headlines. I dont want to get into it, this platform is not the place for such conversations. Irish Republicanism is undoubtably fractured by those that see their own strategy and tactics as best, but one thing we all have in common...
This week, DUP leader Arlene Foster claimed that there wont be a Border Poll or Irish Unity in her lifetime despite another poll from Lucid Talk that claims the opposite. While the latest poll indicates a 1.4% slight margin of support in favour of remaining in the ‘United Kingdom’, it more decisively puts those in...
Following constructive criticism received by our followers, Yes For Unity will attempt to address the imbalance on the panels for our future public talks & debates. Our well received and supported events play an important role within the Irish Unity campaign, and it is important that the entire Irish Unity community and society in general...
During the week, the British Secretary of State, who has overarching control over the Border Poll mechanism as per the Good Friday Agreement shot the idea down by claiming the threshold to trigger the poll has not been met. This comes as no suprise to the Irish Unity community; we wont and dont expect the...
“Irish Unity will be a monumental constitutional change in Ireland, but we shouldnt just be drawing the line under it.” First of all, I wont use this post to begin the debate nor bore your good selves with opinionated; Ireland-EU facts and figures, as that is a debate for a different day. The general understanding...
