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Poll: Will Brexit bring Northern Ireland and the Republic closer together or further apart?
30/11/2021
SINCE THE 2016 Brexit vote, talks of Irish reunification among the people and pundits are being discussed more than ever.
More people think it is likely a united Ireland will exist in 20 years than believe the United Kingdom will exist.
Cold Feet star Jimmy Nesbitt will deliver the keynote address at the Ireland’s Future event in Dublin.
Journalist Peter Oborne admitted to James that he had made a mistaken analysis. Now he thinks that fellow Brexiteers must swallow their pride and think again.
Northern Irish voters would choose united Ireland over UK in a border poll, new survey shows
11/08/2019
A slim majority showed Irish reunification polling ahead of remaining in the UK as arguments over the border and the backstop rage.
The Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture ordered his services to stop post-Brexit controls on foodstuffs at midnight, an order whose practical consequences and legality are being questioned in the midst of negotiations between London and Brussels.
As some say the call for a border poll on a United Ireland is growing, what would it take to get to that point, and what would it mean to be a Unionist, if the Union no longer exists?
If Northern Ireland opts for reunification it would have the ability to join the European Union as part of the Republic after Brexit, a leaked ministerial letter has indicated.
“What worries me is the casual political vandalism. They really don’t seem to care," Tony Blair's former chief negotiator on Northern Ireland has said.
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster laid out her plan to quit, sparking further upheaval at a time when London and Dublin are seeking to calm tensions in the region.
THE Tory peer who for the past decade was his party’s most senior adviser on Northern Ireland has warned of adverse consequences for the union if Boris Johnson fails to strike a deal with the EU.
Brexit has made a united Ireland more likely, the Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has stated.
A majority of people on both sides of the Irish border believes Northern Ireland will have left the UK within 25 years, a poll suggests.
Two-thirds of people say a border poll should be held at some point in the wake of Brexit.
But survey finds public split on whether Brexit will make any difference to unity debate.
THE SON of the late Rev Ian Paisley has said talk of a united Ireland is not as easily dismissed as it once was and that Brexit bears much of the responsibility for transforming attitudes.
TUV leader urges DUP and Ulster Unionists to unite with him against ‘perilous’ threat to union.
It is "irresponsible" for the Irish government to say a border poll should not be held at the moment due to uncertainty about Brexit, Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald has said.
Ireland’s Future document says true cost of unification not Earth-shattering in context of Government spending.
A REFERENDUM on Irish reunification is “closer than ever before” thanks to Brexit, Michelle O’Neill has said.
Simon Fraser argues Brexit complicates union of Britain and Northern Ireland.
Simon Fraser argues Brexit complicates union of Britain and Northern Ireland.
Fiach Kelly: The main threat from a crashout is political and constitutional, not economic.