References to a united Ireland, as can be judged in recent weeks in Belfast’s newspapers and radio stations if less so in Dublin, are increasingly difficult to avoid. It is centre stage.
So what? And who cares, some might ask.
Pause for a moment, however. The fact that the debate has reached the profile that it has is quite an achievement. What was once written off as peripheral or even divisive is close to inescapable.
This suggests that there is an appetite for information and, equally, that there is a growing awareness that proper planning is essential. That is all a long way from the forms of denial about the subject that prevailed until recently.
Describing a policy outcome as not a priority can also be deceptive.
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