"Ms O’Neill said the debate on constitutional change was a “very live one” and the Irish government needed to commence preparatory work in advance of any future border poll"
https://t.co/N8VHWShRU7
"The FM was speaking in Belfast as her party launched its ‘A New Ireland for All – Ending Sectarian Segregation’ policy document.
The paper argues that ending sectarianism will involve an all-Ireland strategy & “positively supporting integrated education”
https://t.co/s9kKaUNS9X
“Instinctively, I want to see a united Ireland and cost isn’t the overbearing factor,” incoming taoiseach Simon Harris has said.
https://t.co/8LlTfgTvmx
🚨People across Ireland would be wealthier in a united Ireland
🚨There will be substantial economic growth in the event of Irish unity
🚨Since Brexit there’s been substantial growth in the all Ireland economy
🚨There is a real opportunity in all of this https://t.co/IvjBndMBeD
"An analysis by two prominent economists on the potential high costs of a united Ireland has been criticised by Seamus McGuinness, an economics professor at the ESRI, as being unrealistic in terms of the way constitutional change would unfold"
https://t.co/9Z3QrsitWb
“The Irish government should immediately establish a citizens’ assembly to plan for Irish unity; one where everyone is welcome, everyone is included, and one where people can openly share their ideas, their hopes, and their ambitions,”
https://t.co/WDGd3OtGxy
“The fact is that the north is not going to have any money for investment and no way to raise any … Fundamentally, as you’ve read here before, it’s the result of being shackled to the decomposing corpse of post-imperial Britain.”
~Brian Feeney, The Irish News
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🚨Thank you Alex Kane for contributing to the broad conversation on a border poll
🚨Ireland’s Future believes a 2030 border poll is possible & likely for same reasons that Colum Eastwood, Brendan O’Leary & others believe so
🚨Bertie Ahern reckoned 2028, we think that’s too soon
“Put simply, the people of Gaza are being deliberately starved to death. If that does not qualify as genocidal, then a valid question is what exactly does?”
~Owen Jones, The National (Scotland)
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@The_Wee_Doggie Why do Unionists always want to paint a picture of everyone in NI as on the dole, no taxpayer layabouts? What does that actually say about the place?