In fact, Mr Martin is unionism's best friend in Irish government circles.

Which means it has been a difficult year for all of unionism.

Blair said: The DUP has no opposition within unionism, internally or externally.

They established the outposts of unionism in the wilderness of Industrial autocracy.

The defining moment for Mr David Trimble and Ulster unionism has come.

But where would they lead unionism post the collapse of the Agreement?

Google also last month acknowledged hiring a consultancy known for defeating unionism.

But a victory for unionism will be far from decisive or definitive.

The risk to unionism is voters could then reassess their constitutional preference.

Skills, as Coyne says, should be at the heart of modern unionism.

The men have the notion that you are not unfriendly toward unionism.

There is disillusionment in middle-unionism with the operation of the Belfast Agreement.

One of unionism's deepest fears is that Britain will turn against it.

Where unionism could be served better by one party representing them all.

It implied law and order, the antithesis of anarchism, socialism, trade-unionism, strikes

Trade unionism for the time being had to come to an end.