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Northern Ireland majority catholic?

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Drumblue said:
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I've a degree in economics, my friend. Sinn Fein's uncosted nonsense won't cut it when you are asking the voters of the republic to pay for your political goals. The public sector in Northern Ireland accounts for 27% of all jobs. Given that the north will be subsumed into a new Ireland, we will not need to keep all of those (duplicate) jobs. What happens those people?

Don't get me wrong: I am all in favour of a united Ireland. But somebody will have to pay. And promises of this gap being "easily made up by the financial boost of reunification" ain't going to cut it.

I live in Germany. The cost of reunification is still being felt on both sides here. And this in the fourth biggest economy on the planet. A united Ireland will have to be paid for. I suspect that it will be the economics that prove the true obstacle to any unification.
 

emir said:
A United Ireland won't work. If it does ever happen, it's going to turn Northern Ireland into Chechnya/Dagestan and you'd have guerrilla insurgency every other week. The biggest issue with the Catholics and the Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland is that they don't practice true Catholicism; it's all a huge facade. Sinn Fein want to legalize abortion, pretty much allow all the LGBTQ rights an so on, and this is never going down well with the Protestants, who tend to be far more socially conservative.
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What we need is some good ole extremist evangelicalism...American style! These are the type of people who don't have sex because it might lead to dancing.
 

PhilM said:
A genuine question: is there an appetite in the south for unification within most of the population? We hear of the north, but I honestly don't know of the south.

With the north and all its complicated history, is there a concern that the Republic would be taking on a number of problems if unification were to occur?
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Irish people are, in general, romantically inclined to a united Ireland. But most won't want to pay for it. And somebody will have to. Sinn Fein's problems will be convincing them that they won't have to. They are experts at magic money tree economics, so who knows, maybe they will. But barring some agreement that ensures a continuation of UK funding for a number of years afterwards - and an EU willing to bankroll the whole endeavour - I think this is the real obstacle to unification.
 
emir said:
A United Ireland won't work. If it does ever happen, it's going to turn Northern Ireland into Chechnya/Dagestan and you'd have guerrilla insurgency every other week. The biggest issue with the Catholics and the Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland is that they don't practice true Catholicism; it's all a huge facade. Sinn Fein want to legalize abortion, pretty much allow all the LGBTQ rights an so on, and this is never going down well with the Protestants, who tend to be far more socially conservative.
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Sinn Fein are a revolutionary socialist organisation. They're not arsed about religion.
 

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