A union of equals as Seanad hosts historic visit

It had certainly been a long time coming.

A union of equals as Seanad hosts historic visit
Tue, 15 May, 2012 - 01:00
Shaun Connolly
Shaun Connolly

Some 126 years after William Gladstone’s first Home Rule Bill, Ulster Unionists spoke in the Dublin parliament.

In the heart of the republican citadel for a session of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, the very presence of the DUP and UUP representatives made history.

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