Northern Ireland majority catholic?

[Shevin Keedy]

On a serious note a catholic majority does not necessarily mean all would vote for reunification.

I delivered a project in an Irish language post primary school and as part of an agree/disagree exercise 14 out of the 15 pupils said they wouldn't vote for a united Ireland.

Reasons given were around access to free heath care and medication, educational opportunities etc. Thats a small sample but shows younger voters care less about romanticism and more about what will benefit them.

With respect mate they're not going to hand a decision like this over to a load of schoolkids.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

With respect mate they're not going to hand a decision like this over to a load of schoolkids.

But they are the next generation of voters.

 

[Tigger]

Funny little island isnt it.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

Funny little island isnt it.

Well a portion of it at the very top is i suppose.

 

[Yarrgh]

It'll be grand to be sure.

 

[Drico]

Are we in the south capable of making the Unionist people, we share an island with feel welcome? Have we learned to live in peace and harmony yet?

I think we certainly had a road to travel - and still do in some ways - but I think we could walk to the Moon and it wouldn't be enough for some. Let's face it: some people have no interest in peace and harmony unless they hold the whip hand.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

But they are the next generation of voters.

Secular Unionists

 

[Taifi gorm]

Proposals to open negotiations;
1) Swapping Belfast for Liverpool, yes even the Wirral. With Ballymena and Bangor as additional sweeteners.
2) Permanent travel ban on Geordies
3) To ease unionist concerns immediate entrance into the commonwealth but only if the oath is taken As Gaelige, pledging loyalty to the pegging prince
4) Harry and Megan to play the Mo Mowlan role, officiate the handover and become Irish citizens.
5) Reparations from the English state for infrastructural development only
6) Reparations from the Vatican for everything to be used to re-home unionists who wish to emigrate
7) ? Property swaps for any English who wish to immigrate with said unionists. There will of course be tryouts Gaelic games, drinking etc
8) Laois, Drogheda and Trinity college to be used as bargaining chips or to trade for any English areas that wish to apply. Tryouts of course will be applicable.

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Secular Unionists

All the while unionism continues to push those types of future voters to Sinn Fein by discriminating against the Irish language. Another Unionist misstep.

 

[Drico]

Are we in the south capable of making the Unionist people, we share an island with feel welcome? Have we learned to live in peace and harmony yet?

And, further to my first point, I'm not sure it's all about the Unionist people either. Plenty of us in the republic have no interest in a doubling of our personal taxation rates just to make Gerry Adams feel more Irish. Who exactly is going to pay for unification? Until the economic realities are honestly addressed, all the sentimental stuff will be looked on with suspicion by people on BOTH sides of the border.

 

[COYBL25]

And we’re up and running lol

 

[Caolam]

When Sinn Fein get into government in the Republic then you will see a dicu starting as to what shape a re-united Ireland will take. The growing centre ground parties and more moderate unionists may start to enter into conversations as to how a new Ireland would work. I don’t think anyone feels that Northern Ireland can just be absorbed into the Republic without some major changes.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

All the while unionism continues to push those types of future voters to Sinn Fein by discriminating against the Irish language. Another Unionist misstep.

I was quoting a term used by Prof. Peter Shirlow, University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Colin Harvey (not that one) at Queens Uni has been doing a lot of work into what a united Ireland would look like and how it could be structured.

Debate on united Ireland can’t wait until unionists are ready

pure.qub.ac.uk

Successive governments down here have ran a mile from doing any sort of preparatory work, possibly for fear of the response from Unionists or perhaps its just too big a task. There is no question but that it will eventually happen but it will have to be a new Ireland not a supergluing of two separate identities.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I was quoting a term used by Prof. Peter Shirlow, University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies.

United Ireland: why is it not on cards despite Sinn Féin success?

Sinn Féin has called for debate on Irish unification, but many obstacles exist to a referendum on the issue

www.theguardian.com