As attention turns to government formation – and the new Programme for Government in Ireland –
these brief reflections are an attempt to address the question in the title: Where now?

Now that we are in December we are officially in the Christmas season. It is also this year, the start of coalition negotiations for the next Government of Ireland. To paraphrase Mariah Carey, all I want for Christmas is a pro-unity government. The recent general election is the first one where all of the mainstream […]

Opinions differ wildly on last week’s election. Here Ray Bassett offers his take.

Gloating from obvious quarters about the Irish election result and the relatively poor performance from Sinn Féin. Seems little point dressing it up.

Now that the Dáil election is over, it is a good time to look ahead to a possible scenario for the next Irish Presidential election, due to take place in late 2025.

If you were promised a fundamental choice about your future, you’d like to think you would get to exercise it. Right? While the North/NI is a complicated place, the constitutional question is at heart really quite simple. People have the right to decide their own fate: the Union with Britain or a united Ireland.  The conversation about Irish unity continues […]

In this guest post, Dr Paul Breen reflects on the question of Remembrance and the poppy from a United Irelander perspective. Michelle O’Neill’s decision to lay a wreath at Belfast’s Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday is a powerful and symbolic gesture. By doing so, she is keeping the promise she made on the day she assumed […]

Not infrequently, people in Britain have asked why the red poppy which commemorates British military war dead generates hostility and opposition from some Irish people and Celtic supporters. With poppy-wearing season upon us we thought it timely to release an edited extract from Chapter 5 of our book The Blood Stained Poppy which we hope goes some […]

By Ben Collins, author of Irish Unity:Time To Prepare First of all I don’t think Donald Trump wakes up in the morning thinking of Ireland, except perhaps when he is contemplating his golf course in Doonbeg. But like the rest of the world, President Trump’s re-election has implications for Ireland and also specifically for the prospect […]

Professor Jon Tonge recently reported that his survey of Alliance party members showed a majority believe there will be and should be a border poll in the next decade. Eóin Tennyson, newly elected Deputy Leader of the party, stated in an interview with the Belfast Telegraph published on 28th October that Alliance would have a ‘leadership role’ in navigating the […]