Speaking Live from New York this evening on @cnni, Sinn Féin President @MaryLouMcDonald has said that a referendum on Irish Unity is inevitable in the event of a no-deal Brexit.#Time4Unity #BrexitVote #Tá32 pic.twitter.com/RIAWCj5Zsb
— Sinn Féin (@sinnfeinireland) March 12, 2019
Their day.
It’s coming.
Outcome of vote shows ‘disregard for people of Ireland’ – McDonald (RTÉ)
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Can we take the land and hand back the unionists?
maybe we could glean a solution to the unionist problem from our israeli friends?
I’d vote for this. We could send the unionists to Slough or something.
I reckon they could have a Scottish independence and an Irish re-unification poll on the same day. It would help Arlene and her ilk focus on what nation they are really part of.
BoJo and Co. would be expected to keep funding their legacy in Ireland for say….50 years or maybe 16.90 years.
Arlene has already said in a documentary (done my Patrick Kielty) that if Ireland unififed she would have to move out of Northern Ireland. ** Rolls TRIPP suitcase over and places boarding pass in her hands.
smashing headline in fairness
if we could have a 3 question referendum I would like:
– Yes (32 counties)
– No (as you were)
– Set up yer own shop (NI establishes itself as an independent country…I think with a few quid to boot up with & an EU membership that could work out nicely for everyone)
‘NI establishes itself as an independent country…’ and then we can start working on getting our 26 counties back!
Pearse Doherty is in town too,personally I much prefer Coveney but still I wish Leo all the best this week.
Farage is still very popular with Trump and his entourage,recently addressed a gathering of hard line conservatives/republicans that Trump also addressed-CPAC.
Here is his speech at the conf.
‘On both sides of the pond we must keep fighting against those who want to stop Trump and Brexit. ‘
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1101608457789231104?s=20
What happens when we say thanks but no thanks?
What has the north to offer the south? A ship yard and a sour attitude?
Marching bands!
bungee jumping!!
Game Of Thrones tours!
bonfires!
Nuclear waste!
A ship yard famous for building a ship that never completed her maiden voyage!
she was all right when she left here.
…well, nothing really…except a functioning water service…and a housing executive that manages to juggle all the contradictions yet house everyone…and a functioning health service that treats everyone equally…and…
except a functioning water service… their water is metered and they pay for it directly. Maybe we could have a better water system if we had to pay per use?
LOL
10/10
Ah Cian – the FG apologist.
The water here was, and still is, paid directly out of our taxes. As were the services paid for that the LPT was supposed to pay for. How is that going? The LPT? Did our taxes reduce (the ones that paid for those devices)? No? Well where did they go then? Paying off the bondholder folk? While the LPT itself gets donated to FGs IW debacle.
@Iwerzon actually no she wasn’t
they used the cheaper crap rivets on her to save money
(which is what made it so easy for the iceberg to peel her open like an orange)
For all the dirt work SF have done, it could be the UK Tory’s and the DUP that get the stage set, and deserve credit, for this potential reunification of Ireland… and that cracks me up ! :)
I note a good few comments from people who haven’t read the Good Friday Agreement. In the event of a border poll, where a majority in the North vote to leave the UK and join the Republic of Ireland, the political entity of Northern Ireland continues to exist, as do all of the institutions – the Stormont Assembly, devolved government, the PSNI, etc – plus all the guarantees for both communities. These can only be removed by changing the GFA, which requires agreement from Britain and Ireland. So, Northern Ireland continues to exist, but sovereignty switches from London to Dublin. There would be NI TDs elected to the Dáil instead of to Westminster. We would have a transition period – it would be sensible to have a long one, perhaps 10 years – to allow the gradual and efficient alignment (usually but not necessarily integration) of all the practical stuff, like health systems, postal system, RTÉ/BBC, Broadband/phones, currency and banking, education (might take 100 years), pensions (British would pay for the existing obligations, as they agreed with EU), public service (should be fine over 10 years, industrial strategy (pretty sure it wouldn’t take the IDA 10 year to roll out its strategy across the North, with the Belfast-Dublin-Cork corridor an obvious place to start), agrifood (already mostly integrated), defence and security (careful now… but we did it successfully in 1922 despite a civil war, so we should be ok this time), etc.
None of this is rocket science, but a little bit of planning, instead of just saying either ‘it’s our country and we want it back’ or ‘we can’t afford those Nordie bigots’, would be useful, seeing as it’s going to happen anyway.
Well said + 32
Well said
+10,000,000,000 (£ per annum)
It’s still surprising that the SF position is, a border poll is “inevitable” in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Shouldn’t a border poll be inevitable regardless? Especially for a republican party.
No, it doesn’t make sense to say something is inevitable just because you want it. If you want it you have work to achieve it and advocate for it you don’t just say it is inevitable.
I would have thought that with a no-deal Brexit possibly two weeks away and the Dáil in session, Mary-Lou might have other things to do at the minute, but fair play to her, she managed to squeeze in a trip to the States to fill SF’s election war chest.
“When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of his way.” Sun Tzu
From a purely party political view, you are absolutely right. Seems a bit short-sighted and callous to risk an economic implosion in N. Ireland (and to a lesser extent, in Ireland) merely to spite the Tories and the DUP, though.
Ah Rob- UK growth was revised downwards today to an anemic 1.2% !
where is the govt ?
Tánaiste and Minister Simon Coveney is to lead a delegation to Paris, Berlin, The Hague, Brussels for St Patrick’s Day.
Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is travelling to London this year, while Minister for Communications Richard Bruton is heading to Canada.
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan is off to New York, while Health Minister Simon Harris will be heading to the Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Agriculture Minister Michael Creed will visit Madrid and Lisbon.
Ministers Heather Humphreys will travel to Australia and New Zealand.
Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone will travel to South Africa, while Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty will travel to Rome and Malta.
Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy is heading to Argentina and Chile, and Culture Minister Josepha Madigan is going to Japan and South Korea.
Minister of State for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment, Patrick O’Donovan is paying a visit to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, while Junior Minister for Mental Health and Older People, Jim Daly is going to India.
Junior Housing Minister Damian English is going to Australia and Timor Leste, while Junior Minister for Disability Issues, Finian McGrath is off to Mexico and Cuba.
Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay will get a visit from Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Pat Breen. The Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann, Seán Ó Fearghaíl is off to Brazil this year.
Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, who has stayed home the last number of years, is off to the United Arab Emirates this year.
Education Minister Joe McHugh is going to Finland and China, while Minister of State for Financial Services and Insurance, Michael D’Arcy is going to Germany and the Netherlands.
Minister for Rural and Community Development, Michael Ring is heading to Chicago, while the Attorney General, Seamus Woulfe SC is also off to the US, taking in Washington DC.
Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Seán Kyne is off to Boston and Pennsylvania, while Minister for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor is going to Austin, Denver and Kansas.
Savannah, Atlanta will get a visit from Minister of State for Equality, Immigration and Integration, David Stanton, while Vancouver, Calgary and Seattle will be paid a visit from Minister of State for the Diaspora and Development, Ciaran Cannon.
Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan is going to France and Luxembourg, while Minister of State for Local Government and Electoral Reform, John Paul Phelan is going to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Minister of State for Health Promotion and the National Drugs Strategy, Catherine Byrne is heading to Slovakia, Austria and Hungary while Junior Agriculture Minister Andrew Doyle is going to Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia.
Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Kevin Boxer Moran is going to Poland and Czech Republic while Minister of State for Natural Resources, Community Affairs and Digital Development, Sean Canney is going to Greece, Romania and Bulgaria.
Junior Sports and Tourism Brendan Griffin is going to Scotland.
Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann, Senator Denis O’Donovan is heading off to Russia for the celebrations.
-yeah Mary Lou should stay at home instead visiting all the congressional and senate contacts, SF has quietly,efficiently and without costing the Irish state a cent built up over decades-
ROFL!
And where is the ‘’Leader’ of this country in the middle of the turmoil? Oh, sure I forgot – he’s left his deputy behind to take care of things. Michéal Martin.