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Unionism is in a worse state today than at any time since the first Home Rule Bill in 1886

In the final part of his series about the Ulster Workers’ Council strike, which forced the collapse of the power-sharing executive 50 years ago today, Alex Kane argues that unionism has been paying for the consequences of its ‘victory’ ever since

Retired Irish ambassador, Sean Donlon, and former Stormont Agriculture Minister, Bríd Rodgers will be among the speakers at an event marking the 50th anniversary of the collapse of the 1974 Sunningdale Agreement.

The politicians who supported Sunningdale dared to re-imagine this place and believed it was not condemned to perpetual violence and division

Mitchel McLaughlin recalls “spectacle” of British government and political leaders meeting UDA and UVF

Upheaval drove a wedge between communities

In the first of a three-part series about the Ulster Workers’ Council strike, which was announced 50 years ago today, Alex Kane recalls the moment when anti-Sunningdale unionists and loyalist paramilitaries came together in an audacious attempt to bring down the power-sharing executive

December 9 1973 MANY questions are posed in the communique which followed the end, today, of the Sunningdale talks.

FIFTY years ago – almost to the day – the Sunningdale Agreement was published.

AS the negotiations over the Assembly Executive neared their end, expectations were aroused that agreement might be reached after all, although there were certain hurdles that could prevent it.