Big question: when will the Dublin government address the UI issue? How come we get all hot and bothered and happily push millions to Ukraine, while our next door neighbour continues to act as though NEI in the UK was the most natural thing in the world? This stateen was established at the point of a gun- that’s a fact, not an opinion. If someone stole your car at the point of a gun, I’d say you’d be pretty pissed off, especially if the thief talked as though it was all your fault. I listened to that nice man Hilary Benn today and he was explaining why it was important to pay attention to Legacy and how the victims of the Troubles must be supported.Only thing was, ihe included British soldiers as victims. Come on, Hilary old sausage. You’re having a laugh. If you don’t know about Bloody Sunday and the Glenanne gang and multiple crimes committed against the Irish people by these criminalsin and out of uniform, then you maybe should have a chat with Keir Starmer, who didn’t know about Mandelson’s close relationship with Epstein.
One hundred years and two days ago, Ireland declared its right to sovereignty. We in NEI think maybe we’ve waited long enough. Time for Dublin government to establish multiple citizens’ assemblies and to declare a date for a referendum on Irish unity.
There would be a referendum in Northern Ireland on the constitutional question, if there was momentum for change in the province. But that is clearly not the case. The majority of people in the province are happy with the status quo, and I cannot see a referendum happening any time this century.
Many people in the Republic ask why Northern Ireland would want to unite with the South, when the people in Northern Ireland can’t even unite among themselves. Southerners can see that Northern Ireland is a deeply divided society with a high degree of self-segregation. No one on either side of the border wants to change the status quo.
Sinn Féin have become the largest Political Party in the north of Ireland & indeed all of the Island, this would have been unthinkable not so many years ago.
Michelle Ó Neil now heads Stormont so if that isnt evidence as a push for reunification then i dont know what is.
FFG is deliberately holding back reunification because they fear Sinn Féin becoming the main party of a reunified state.
They are right to be afraid, because when the books are thrown open in the new state they will be exposed to the public as the Jackeens they are.
Sinn Féin have become the largest Political Party in the north of Ireland & indeed all of the Island, this would have been unthinkable not so many moons ago.
Michelle Ó Neil now heads Stormont so if that isnt evidence as a push for reunification then i dont know what is.
FFG is deliberately holding back reunification because they fear Sinn Féin becoming the main party of a reunified state.
They are right to be afraid, because when the books are thrown open in the new state they will be exposed to the public as the Jackeens they are.
Unfortunately Ireland gave up it’s territorial claim to the North in 1998 when it ammended articles 2 and 3 in the GFA.
Yes it did – as an act of good will to further the peace process. It doesn’t mean it gave up aspirations to unite the country at some stage.
As Jude says, NI was set up by force and was doomed to failure from the start. ‘A Protestant State for a Protestant People’ was hardly the bedrock foundation for a new enterprise – completely alienating and discriminating against almost half of the population.
However, the Unionist people had nearly 70 years to get it right, to mature and evolve. To treat their fellow citizens decently. They failed.
The Unionist people should show a little self awareness in this regard.