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Several cabinet ministers have told the BBC a no-deal Brexit could lead to a vote on Irish unification.
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.
As Brexit looms, nationalists in Northern Ireland are increasingly looking to Dublin for representation. Now, as Ben Kelly explains, political parties are responding in new, innovative ways.
Research by Unesco chiefs highlights risk to peace in event of rushed border poll.
Whisper it, but a second referendum is the best way out of this mess, even for the DUP.
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.
Opinion: a new post-Brexit debate about Irish unity could take in a radically different vision of a unified and reconciled island.
The British government’s understanding of the Good Friday Agreement has been questioned amid claims Irish citizens living in the north may not be allowed to vote in a future Irish unity referendum.
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.
Brexit has unleashed many demons in Northern Ireland, and on the island generally. It has shaken social, political and economic structures, and raised a constitutional question about what Ireland will look like a generation from now.
Fiach Kelly: The main threat from a crashout is political and constitutional, not economic.
Way clear for North to automatically become part of EU if its people vote for united Ireland.
Everyone should worry about no deal, the civil servant who was, until March, head of the Brexit department has said.
Northern Ireland was ravaged by sectarian violence over the division of Ireland. Now people are talking about the prospect of reunification one day.
Richard Haass, president at Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the state of Brexit amid a change of leadership in the U.K.
'Radical change is needed for UK to survive'
05/08/2019
For the UK to survive, the UK government's approach to devolution needs to "change fundamentally", Wales' Brexit minister has warned.
If a united Ireland is on the horizon a decent departure from the UK must be planned.
A United Ireland? Some Northern Ireland Unionist figures 'ready to talk' unification [9 mins]
17/05/2018
Channel 4 News has learned that some respected figures from the liberal wing of unionism are now ready to talk with the government in Dublin about Irish unity - and even a border poll.
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 changed attitude and culture in Ireland around issue, says Sean Kelly MEP.
Nicos Anastasiades says Cyprus will stand up for peace in Ireland and the backstop.
Ireland will be united “within a generation” as Brexit speeds up calls for a border poll, the vice-president of Sinn Fein said today.
BREXIT has set Ireland "on the path" to simultaneous north/south referendums on unification, an international legal conference has been told.