And so the work began in Leinster House to be ‘a unionist voice, and not the voice for unionism’. To break down barriers, dispel the myths, to engage, inform, listen, and get others to listen and to end the misunderstandings that many had about a Northern Irish culture and identity often misrepresented and portrayed in the worst light though press and media. Good people across many communities often unfairly viewed through a prism of history and heritage portrayed as a group who were stuck in the past and who only existed in a political bubble built on mistrust and insecurity. Not remotely representative of the vast majority of people living and working across NI 23 years on from Good Friday Agreement. A progressive society where many examples of cross community work are already underway, with communities working together to build a better future in projects often going unreported and overlooked in a media frenzy battling for ‘scoops’ and scandal, disagreement and disorder and with an insatiable appetite for negativity.
- Ian Marshall, here: https://sharedireland.com/a-unionist-voice/
