Gerry Fitt

How Austin Currie’s 1968 housing protest ignited NI’s civil rights movement

Revisiting the issue 50 years on the SDLP co-founder reflects on current state of affairs

Peers and beers, MPs and G&Ts: Westminster’s drinking habits

A drunken fight in a Westminster bar this week was a throwback to the old ways

Where did Theresa May’s new friends, the DUP, come from?

With anti-Catholic roots, the DUP is anti-gay and pro-Brexit

Founder of North civil rights movement Fred Heatley dies

As a former professional boxer he also wrote extensively on the sport over many decades

Ireland knew two Martin McGuinnesses: the man of war and the man of peace

Obituary: A shrewd, disciplined politician who sold ceasefire idea to the IRA he once led

Assembly election: Sinn Féin surge raises many questions

Analysis: Foster under pressure as DUP lead closes while high turnout fails to aid centrists

Diarmaid Ferriter: New SDLP leader should take party into opposition and challenge SF

Colum Eastwood needs to dig his own trench and move his party out of the Hume shadow

Colum Eastwood pledges to make SDLP more relevant

Derry Assembly member defeats Dr Alasdair McDonnell to become sixth leader of party

Tough and aggressive Northern Ireland secretary

Roy Mason: April 18th, 1924 - April 19th, 2015

Knives being sharpened for Alasdair McDonnell - but they won’t be unsheathed just yet

SDLP leader will need to draw on all his combative resources

‘Beautiful failures’: the disturbing power of the art of the Troubles

After years of censorship, controversy and caution the Ulster Museum is staging the first major retrospective of Troubles-related art

Founder member of SDLP and dedicated servant of South Down

Eddie McGrady: June 3rd, 1935- Nov 11th, 2013

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