O’Neill

• O’Neills economic improvement

  £900million to update industries

  mondernised railway

  new city, craigavon

  nee uni in coleraine
• Successes of Oneills actions


  35,000 new jobs

  motorway construction

  new airport
• Failures of oneills policies

  Loss of 20,000 jobs in traditional industries

  Had to give money to Harland and Wolff

  unemployment 7-8%
• O‘Neills attempts at improving community relations

  Condolences to Catholic Church when pope died

  visited catholic schools and hospitals

  funding for catholic schools and hospital
• Attempts to improve relations with republic or Ireland


  Meets Sean Lemass ( JAN 1965 )
• Oneills support and opposition, 1965


  short term support from loyalists

  • oup won 38/52 seats

  divisions in the oup when faulkner condemns lemass visiting
• Nationalist reaction:

  annoyed because:

  • naming the city Craigavon after NIs first PM
  • Oneills economic policies favouring Protestant east