Leading trade unionists from across Ireland will gather in Newry on Saturday for the latest in series of Ireland’s Future engagement events.
The civic nationalism’s group is consulting widely with a variety of sectors at the beginning of what it regards a “crucial five year period” in the debate around constitutional change.
Saturday’s event at Thomas Davis Hub, Doran’s Hill follows similar engagement in Belfast last month with members of the business community.
The group also met recently with representatives of the British government.
Ireland’s Future secretary Niall Murphy said the latest series of events was “reflective of the level of engagement our organisation has undertaken in the recent past”.
“We seek to continue to inform, educate and stimulate the conversation on constitutional change in the years preceding a referendum,” he said.
“The pace of change has quickened and we are firmly of a belief that a referendum will take place around the year 2030, therefore it is incumbent upon the political administrations in Dublin, Belfast and London to prepare, and it is also imperative that civil society, including the trade union movement, recognises the constitutional space we are now entering.”
Those taking part include ICTU assistant general secretary Gerry Murphy, Unison regional general secretary Patricia McKeown and Phil Ni Sheaghdha, general secretary of the Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
