Opinion

As Brexit talks have progressed, unionists – whether they voted Remain or Leave in the referendum – have consistently opposed an Irish Sea border, ‘special status’ for Northern Ireland or any other form of words that means Brussels retains effective control over this part of the UK.

In an essay for our legacy series, ANNE GRAHAM says peacemaking is not just overlooking terrible things that have been done, it is challenging people such as Sinn Fein politicians who ‘regret’ her brother’s murder but will not condemn it (link below to rest of series:)

There were significant developments yesterday on the topic that this column addressed last week, a border in the Irish Sea.

Liam Gibson of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC) does Northern Ireland people a great service by sounding an alarm bell (‘We fear abortion up to term is on NI’s horizon,’ September 20) about the proposal to decriminalise abortion.

It always seems to happen so quickly.

At a presentation in July in Westminster on the legacy imbalance scandal, the lawyer Neil Faris said: ‘It is hard to know where to begin’.

When bits of geranium and pansies started flying past my window this week I knew it was time to brave Storm Ali and go to the rescue. After all a lot of money was spent on those plants so I had to risk life and limb to chase after them.

In the latest essay in our series, ALAN BARRY says that the constant repetition of police misconduct in the HIU part of the draft legacy bill appears to create a false impression that such misconduct was widespread — the same false impression has been given of military misconduct (link to the rest of the series underneath the article):

At a friend’s installation in a Presbyterian chapel, the words “not to refuse light from any quarter” jolted me like a crack of thunder from that drowsiness which descends during long liturgical formalities.

It is one month since the News Letter’s ground-breaking series on the legacy imbalance got under way (link beneath the article to the rest of the series):

In the latest contribution to our series on the imbalance, ISHAN BASHIR writes about the impact of the 1996 IRA Canary Wharf bomb which broke the 1994 ceasefire (see beneath it for link to the rest of the series):

In Dublin yesterday, a new publication by the former Irish ambassador Ray Bassett was launched in which he examined the Irish border question.

Diana Johnson is the Labour MP for Hull North. Yet next month she will introduce a Bill in the House of Commons which – although we have not seen the wording yet – could seek to make abortion legally available for any reason whatsoever in Northern Ireland.

In the latest in our series on the legacy imbalance, a woman who lost her father in the Harrods bomb, SUSANNA DODD, says bereaved victims in Great Britain will not be able to access HIU as their loved one was killed outside Northern Ireland (see beneath the article for links to other articles in the series):

There has been intensive talk and agony over the shape of the Irish border post Brexit.

The people killed or injured during the Troubles came from all walks of life and many were part of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.