Emerging era of post nationalismin Northern Ireland

Despite deep divisions, a growing population feel neither Irish or British but Northern Irish, writes John Lloyd

THE latest “troubles” in Northern Ireland began 45 years ago, and though much reduced, sometimes to invisibility, they are not over yet and will not be for some time.

Protests over the republican-dominated Belfast City Council’s decision to fly the union flag just on certain days happened again over the weekend, if smaller and less violent than in the past few weeks.