1、And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

2、As a former trade unionist, he would be more sensitive to the demands of the people.

3、Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's unionist first minister and a hardline Protestant, broke with tradition by attending the funeral mass.

4、the federal government replaced the powerfully pro-settler Sir Godfrey Huggins with the even tougher and more determined ex-trade unionist.

5、The protests are less political than cultural-they reflect a sense among poor Belfast Protestants that Catholics are getting everything they want and that unionist heritage is being erased.

6、Less than three weeks after unionist and republican leaders in Northern Ireland reached a power-sharing deal, a large car-bomb exploded outside a courthouse in the town of Newry. No one was injured.

7、Mr Paisley, who leads the DUP, the largest unionist party, is an 80-year-old Protestant cleric who has spent his life denouncing the very idea of a rapprochement with republican leaders like Mr Adams.