Unions may be buried along with Thatcher

Rejection spells the end of partnership, writes Gerard Howlin

THIS morning the funeral cortege of Margaret Thatcher will process from St Clement Danes along the great ceremonial route of the British Empire along Ludgate Hill and Fleet St towards St Paul’s. In part, the Irish trade union movement will be buried with her. In a sense it was buried by her.

Yesterday’s rejection of Croke Park II puts Irish trade unions and the Government back in a place they have not been for a generation.