This afternoon.
The O’Callaghan Davenport Hotel, Dublin 2
Top from left: Northern Ireland Assembly Finance Minister Mairtin O Muilleoir, Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald, and United Ireland campaign co-ordinator Matt Carthy MEP, at the launch of a new Sinn Féin document Towards a United Ireland. To wit:
Northern Ireland’s Secretary of State to trigger a referendum under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement there would first need to be the political will from Dublin.
The document says referendums on Irish reunification would be held concurrently north and south of the border.
It says that the Orange tradition must be accommodated under a new constitution and there would be new symbols and emblems.
Northern Ireland Minister for Finance Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said reunification would mean a benefit of £35bn between now and 2025….
FIGHT!
Irish reunification would see benefit of £35bn by 2025 – Sinn Féin (RTÉ)
Leah Farrell/Rollingnews
hope to god this never happens!
We have an Ulster Prod captaining the 32 county rugby team, I think we’re ready to let one run the country
And what a prod he is!!!
Eddie Carson would be proud
Captain of Ireland. but can’t / won’t sing the IRISH national anthem.
anthem of the Republic of Ireland no the island of Ireland. We should let the northern lads sing god save the queen. Three anthems one to suit each taste
I’m a prod!
Thank God, my ancestors could read and write.
Don’t believe you.
You’ve too much of the lazy reactionary about you. Castle Catholic, at best.
sincerely hope it does
No thanks.
The English taxpayer can continue to pay for the Nornies public services.
+1
I imagine that the English taxpayer has had it to *here* with funding these ‘community organisers’, to say nothing of two leisure centres in every one-horse town.
If we don’t keep quiet the English taxpayer will demand a referendum on NornIrnexit.
it’d be awful complicated for SF to decide which policies to follow when there is only one electorate
good god, imagine the gards trying to maintain public order in the north.
I say no! To Ulster. Ugh! no thanks. Its the non rugby people I’d be worried about.
that’s the other 99.9% then.
South of the Border its the Ruger-Buggers who are the problem… I
magine a three financial institutions run by a clique of concussed brainless morons, could you imagine the damage they could do..
Hold on a moment, isn’t that precisely what happened!
Its not rugby goys you need to worry about, its the soccer lads (and make sure to keep an eye on the kids)
Is that you, Tom Humphries? ;-)
It could be good…. but if this is lead by SF, people will be turned off, as am I, as SF are willing to go for unification regardless of consequences as it is their raison d’etre.
I have an independent (of both govts) report at home on this, done last year…. will post a link later.
My take on explaining the cost of reuniting Ireland to the Sinn Fein voter base – Your dole will be cut by 50%. Let’s see how enthusiastic they would be then about it.
I didn’t know that the unemployment rate was 21%
ah, but they are needed for flegs, murals and bonfires.
It would be if the Shinners were in charge.
Apart form your lazy snobbery, what do yo base ‘Your dole will be cut by 50%’ this on?
Waaaaaait a minute.
FUPP.
?!?!
WE’RE FREEEEEE!
Who’d be stupid enough to ask their crazy neighbour to move in with them.
Exactly.
NI Republicans having to pay to see a GP, for school books, no school meals, etc, etc, would be turkeys voting for Christmas
Isn’t anybody actually watching whats going on in the World? After Brexit, Frexit, Netherxit, Denxit is done and dusted and the Euro is but a memory, we are all going to be using Sterling in these islands.
And the minute we are back using Sterling, we’ll be a United Ireland all right – United under the Bank of England.
Good idea.
Ahahahaha
You’re watching what’s going on in the world & a strong, successful UK is what you predict?
The debt my father bore…
Looks like they left out that bit about the north costing ten billion a year, conveniently. So where’s the money going to come from, rob a bank? Oh wait.
Rob 200 banks a year or launder the contents of every oil tanker atop the salty sea: it shouldn’t be beyond the skill set of this bunch of fantasists.
Borders come and go. Time to see if these economic predictions are valid – as the economy in the north is a basket case and the south is 6 months from imploding again, if not sooner – it might give us all a focus, we can’t be held hostage by the sharp-edge of unionism that is laughably easy to provoke by their masters in the slightly larger houses when their economic interests might be in question, make their interests the same as everyone on the island, politics and business in the north is as greasy as the south, fit like a glove.
Are there any recent polls in ROI to see how many people would vote for a united Ireland?
kick it off there Cian….