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This morning/afternoon.

FIGHT!

Support for Irish unity gives hope to nationalism (The Irish News)

Previously: Soon We’ll be Shipbuilding

This afternoon.

Belfast, Northern Ireland.

He seems nice.

No united Ireland for generations to come, insists Doug Beattie as UUP launch election manifesto (News Letter)

It will come again.

FIGHT!

Meanwhile…

From top: January 2020 edition of The Economist; writer Michael O’Loughlin

This morning.

What do we want?

You’d want to be zipping it.

Via The Irish Times:

We all know, though some pretend not to, that Northern Ireland is not, and never has been, and never will be, an integral part of the UK in the way that Tunbridge Wells is. Why else did the British government give unionists their own government and state in 1921, and not the Scots and the Welsh? But the fact that unionists are so delusional about the past century does not invalidate their emotions. They have a right not to live in a united Ireland.

When Irish nationalists talk about “reuniting” Ireland, what do they mean? When was Ireland ever “united” except in the context of British rule? So what would a united Ireland actually look like? A Republic writ large? A Christy Moore fantasy of Irish ways and Irish laws? At this stage so many people have killed for, or been killed for, a united Ireland that it has become a tainted concept.

If you really want a united Ireland, based on unity rather than head counts, now is the time to stop talking about it.

Um.

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We Need  To Stop Talking About A United Ireland (Michael Loughlin, Irish Times)

This morning.

Sinn Féin has taken out adverts in a number of US newspapers calling for the Irish Government to prepare and plan for a united Ireland.

The half-page adverts are appearing in the Washington Post and the New York Times, with full page colour advertisements in the Irish-American newspapers, the Irish Voice and the Irish Echo.

Sinn Féin places adverts in US newspapers calling for united Ireland (RTÉ)

Let him count the ways.

United Ireland is a weekly 32-episode podcast – presented by Una Mulally and Andrea Horan –  delving into the “issues you care about in Ireland, and the world”.

United Ireland writes:

Every week we ask a question relevant to one of the 32 counties.

While we’re tackling issues that can divide us, we want to ensure that we’re highlighting all the things that bring us together and unite us. So each week we have a contributor who represents their county.

Mango was the Dublin rep and did such a lovely job we made a lil vid (above) that you might enjoy. Especially if you’re from Dublin….

United Ireland podcast

We’re going to be rich.

This afternoon.

The launch of ‘The Cost of Non Unification – Brexit and the Reunification of Ireland’  by Dr Kurt Hübner, Director of the Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia.

Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Michelle O’Neill said

“Dr. Hübner and his team bring a wealth of experience to this debate and their conclusions are crystal clear – reunification would lead to a massive €23.5 billion increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) across the island by 2025.

The vast majority of these economic benefits would be in the North, where GDP would increase by 17.9 billion, that equates to over €9000 for every citizen.

“That is in stark contrast to the economic devastation identified in the report of a no-deal Brexit which would lead to a slump in GDP of over €10 billion. Even in a post Brexit scenario where the North remains in the European Single Market, we would still face a GDP decline of almost €4.5 billion.”

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‘Report confirms massive economic windfall from reunification’ – O’Neill (Sinn Féin)

Meanwhile…

Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald

Earlier this summer, Ms McDonald said a poll on Irish unity should not be held while uncertainty around Brexit remains.

The following day, she said that in the event of a hard Brexit such a referendum would be “imperative.”

This morning, Ms McDonald said that while such a poll being held in the event of the UK “crashing out” of the European Union would not be ideal, if Britain insisted on doing so there would have to be a referendum on Irish unity because the UK could not “inflict that level of damage on the country.”

Um.

Anyone?

Sinn Féin consistent over holding of unity poll – McDonald (RTÉ)

Rollingnews

This morning.

City North Hotel, Gormanstown Dublin.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams TD, the Party’s leader in the North Michelle O Neill and Deputy Leader Mary Lou MacDonald on the last day of the Sinn Féin meeting to plan new political term.

Fight, etc.

Sinn Féin ‘ready to restart formal Stormont talks’ (BBC)

Sam Boal/Rollingnews

 

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Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the British-Irish Council (BIC) Summit, Dublin Castle last month; Today’s Irish Independent front page.

Just us so.

A united Ireland, you say?

Slugger O’Toole writes:

Does anybody seriously think that a 56 % majority in favour of Remain on a 63% turnout translates into majority support for a united Ireland? That Northern Ireland outside the EU will produce “a seismic shift?”

“Europe” just isn’t that important in the North, unless it’s exploited as a new tune on the nationalist drum.

So the question the Irish have to answer now is: are you serious?

…If you don’t like the British negotiating position going into the Article 50 process, will you ask the British government to regard the Remain vote which included a fair minority of unionists as evidence which favours a border poll? Do you think the British would agree?

Anyone?

Are the Dublin party leaders serious about raising Unity in the Brexit negotiations or are they playing Dáil politics? (Slugger O’Toole)