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First the Independent and now the i withdraws from Ireland, north and south

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on July 26, 2013, 9:14 pm

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Exactly thirteen months after The Independent withdrew from the island it will be the turn of its baby sister, the i. The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade reported this afternoon what the Irish News reported earlier: Independent Print has decided to stop distributing copies of The Independent’s little sister, i, in Ireland. Newsagents have been told that the issues of the i on 2 August will be the final ones available for sale in both the north of Ireland and the Republic. …

John McCallister: Our politics has collapsed and retreated behind old barriers

Mick Fealty on April 6, 2013, 11:16 am

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Interesting outake from.John McCallister’s oped in yesterday’s News Letter: “..he says of the SDLP’s professed vision of reaching out to unionists: “Centre-ground, moderate unionists can take no pleasure in the fact that this vision has not come to pass. “Rather than being a standard-bearer for civic, moderate nationalism, the SDLP has retreated behind the tribal barricades. “It is, of course, understandable. The temptation for both unionism and nationalism has been the same: forsake moderate, pluralist politics and go hunting for …