Would anybody like to see a united Ireland?

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Medea's biggest fan

There should only be a united Ireland if the majority of people in Northern Ireland want it.

when the sun goes down

i really couldn't care if we're united or not

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Orla C

We're all horrified by the IRA attacks, dear. What about the UVF attacks on Dublin and on people in the Republic?

But that's old hat, and we're all moving on. My own feeling is that the border is starting to matter less and less to many people north and south of it, and it will gradually disappear in people's minds. But not for a couple of generations yet.

Soul Jacker

I live in Northern Ireland, was born here and hold an Irish passport but I would not like to be part of a united Ireland today for the simple reason that it is not the wish of the majority of people in the six counties of NI.

I hold an Irish passport because I feel it most closely represents me as an Northern Irish citizen. If anyone asks me my Nationality I will say I'm Northern Irish because I feel even though there are very real ties between the 2 countries on this island there is a significant cultural difference as well.

Even if a majority of Northerners voted for a united Ireland (which I don't believe will happen, at least any day soon), I very much doubt that the electorate in the south would ever vote for a united Ireland. Just as I know if people in Britain were asked if they wanted NI to remain in the UK they'd probably say no as well.

I'm enough of a realist to know that at the minute NI is a drain. I think the best thing the UK and the Republic could do for us is to cut us loose, make us grow up as nation and force us to work together.

I know Northern Ireland as a nation can succeed but I only wish we'd give it a go.

Finally I believe people in the Republic and Britain are closer now than they've ever been, they're are both mature enough now to realise that whatever has happened in the past we can now work together for mutual benefit.

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Actually scratch that. AnPhoblachtAbÃº and Mr NO you've more in common than you'd like to admit. How about if we re name some god forsaken rock off the Antrim coast Prick Island and send you both on your way.
There you can talk about the good old days when the RA murdered a mother 10 because she left her house to help a teenage british soilder shot by a sniper and if that wasn't bad enough labelled her a traitor and hid her body. (look up Mrs Jean McConville) And how the UDA regularily abducted tortured and murdered people because they suspected they were Catholics. And of course be as bigioted as your heart's content.

Sarah

After years and years of conflict, we finally have some semblance of peace, and some Sasanach gobshite wants it all to kick off again.

Realistically, whatever anyone says, a United Ireland will only ever come about if the majority of people in the NORTH decide they want it.

Also, I think you need to bear in mind that a lot of atrocities were committed by both sides, not just the republicans.

I should be doing something else

No, I wouldn't like to see a United Ireland.

As someone else said above, we are only just coming into an uneasy peace. Talk of a United Ireland at this stage is out of the question, apparently the subject is off topic in the Dail for at least another 20 years.

Like a Fox

No the republic is better off with out the north and the north benefits from being part of the UK. If both were renunited the republic wouldn't be able to support the north or cope with the sectarianist fued that would undoubtedly occur between the unionists and loyalists.

Conor d

Well I'm a young Ulster Protestant, and I'd be happy in a United Ireland. It'd make a lot more sense. The 'no surrender' idiot Unionists really annoy me and they're usually such backward reactionaries. Long in the past, we Presbyterians here always regarded ourselves as 'Irish' and not 'British'.
Some people say the South couldn't afford us, but it's up to us to make ourselves sustainable; we shouldn't have to depend on Britain or the South, for that matter.
We need to get our own economy up so that we not an unwelcome weight on the South's shoulders. I have lived in Dublin and the South is strides ahead of us, I hate to say. We could learn a lot from them.
Some people might be surprised that I'd welcome Irish unity, but my whole family thinks like this and most of my Protestant friends would either welcome it too or are indifferent. But there wouldn't be a civil war, like some fool said earlier. It would be wholly undemocratic to not respect the decision of the majority and some Unionists are always shouting about 'democracy' when it suits them. I have a girlfriend who's from Dublin and she's also Protestant (C of I) and she is as Irish as they come: She speaks fluent Irish, plays camogie and play the Irish tin whistle. She is also quite nationalistic and loves Ireland. This is very normal down south and Protestants there are as Irish, if not more so.

Sean

I'm a Northern Irish Nationalist and I'd like to see a United Ireland, though right now it seems too soon. People need to learn to live together first. The UK don't want us and, in the South, the main parties say they want it but there's a mixed opinion publicly. It seems, then, that we're goin that direction.

It gets more complicated in Northern Ireland itself though. The majority (Unionists) wish to remain in the UK, a smaller portion (Nationalists) wish for a United Ireland, and a small portion wish to be part of an independent state of Northern Ireland. It's not even about religion anymore.

Independently, Northern Ireland would probably not be able to sustain itself. It's up to the people to decide, and I think they'll come to realise that a United Ireland is the best option. As for the past, it's past and things are as they are. You can't move forward if you're lookin back all the time.

Another thing, about Nationalist parties, Sinn Fein come from a heavily republican background, which is unattractive to a lot of Nationalists. And the SDLP want to keep the North separate from the South, even if they do want a United Ireland so, again, we have division.

Protestants in the North seem to forget that there's Protestants in the South under Irish rule who are happy enough.

agooddub

My heart says yes but the fact is the Republic cannot afford them.
N.Ireland is a massive drain on the UK finances costing the British taxpayer hundreds of millions every week on grants.

NO SURRENDER

A united Ireland would be a good thing you say? Fortunately then it is not your decision to make!

You would like to see a united Ireland for the sake of peace? - There would be civil war - Dublin would burn.

ULSTER WILL ALWAYS REMAIN BRITISH!

There is nothing else to say here.

AnteK

i'm going to get raped for this but whatever.
yes
i would love to see it
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regardless of what the unionists think
if they love the queen and england so much they should **** off back there and leave Ireland to the Irish.
and if the english want something in return, we can give them south dublin.
snobby bastards are practically english anyway

Big Red 007

People do what they have to do for Freedom. Leave Ireland for the Irish.

Tiocfaidh Armani

Ireland must be united, and I'm disgusted with the "West Brit" quisling who is so mind dead that he doesn't care if Ireland is united or not.

The IRA was fighting a war, a guerilla war for a free united democratic socialist republic, and unfortunately innocent people were killed during that war as in all wars. Republicans have suffered long and hard as a consequence of illegal British rule in our country and no part of Ireland would be free had it not been for the use of violence which Britain and its Protestant puppets made inevitable.

An united Ireland is an all-around advantage, and would end the economic difficulties of the North as it has not been economically viable due to the conflict that can only end with an united Ireland as well as its geographic position in a globalist world.

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