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So H&W had gotten renewable energy / oil platform maintenance work in, but that has dried up.
They'd been chasing it but got not enough in and the owner had out it up for sale. Two weeks ago the interested buyer withdrew...
Meanwhile the promise to build UK naval ships in the UK in 2017 has come to nothing as that project has to start first.
It's indeed good to see people standing side to side. The orange order has helped preserve Irish Gaelic in the past and you have to remember unionism used to see itself as Irish too.
Carson did not want "Rome rule" but had no hard feelings towards what is now ROI. The 1922 partition / 1936 hard border and the DUP / Troubles later and political unionism is a different beast.
(Political unionism however has been regressive for some time... The troubles could have maybe been prevented but local members of the UU ousted the then secretary of state over comprises he proposed)
But NI has a strong grassroots charities / political groups movement luckily and many people in those groups happily work with "themmuns"