The scale of the challenge ahead for those of us who advocate for Irish unity can also be illustrated by the strange obsession with Heather Humphreys’s husband’s apparent past membership of the Orange Order. Photograph: Grainne Ni Aodha/PA Wire
A “new Ireland” is exactly that: a new state, with a new constitution, an enlarged and partly different population, as well as a lot of political and social change from the existing Republic.
It is not perhaps a revolution, but it is a lot more than a slight evolution.
The populations of both the South and the North need to consider not just if a united island is what we want – but also, if it is, how much of what is currently part of our lives we are willing to sacrifice or change.
Opinion polling by The Irish Times and ARINS (Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South) has revealed tensions between a majority desire for unity within the
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