Page 13 - Border Poll News Today

Review Grimes & McKee's New Ireland Lyric Theatre Until June 11 GRIMES and McKee’s New Ireland show, which has taken over the Lyric Theatre’s Naughton Studio stage, is a reworking of the old gag about the guy walking into Kelly’s Cellars at some point in the future.

As the debate over the circumstances in which an Irish border referendum can take place intensifies, most attention to date has focussed on the position of northern nationalists, unionists and the unaligned.

According to the opinion polls, to win in the south. and that could mean that there is whats called in the jargon, a border poll, but to put simply is simply a referendum on whether northern ireland should leave the uk and join with the republic. and ive looked at the legislation. your decision. not the prime ministers, not parliament. it would be the northern ireland secretarys decision. you ready to take that decision to call a border poll? im ready to adhere to the law and we cant go through ...

Of sinn fein in northern ireland, there hasnt been a substantial movement in those people who actually would... how they would vote in the circumstances of border poll. i think people want me focused on the priorities that are there at the moment, not these constitutional issues. now, the interesting thing about thisjob, and maybe one reason youre suited to it, because you get good write ups from critics as well as from friends, is that you have to deal with people you probably wouldnt normally ...

In percentage terms the Republic of Ireland spends less on defence than any other county in the EU, even Malta and Luxembourg.

The pressure for a border poll on Irish unity is growing in a way that makes the question not so much ‘if’ but ‘when’.

For years, paying for a united Ireland has been seen as a central problem — even if a border poll in Northern Ireland supported the idea.

?Patrick Kielty has not even begun his tour of duty as new host of The Late Late Show, and some in RTÉ are already whispering behind his back.

It’s very, very simple: a 50% plus one vote is enough to either continue or end the Union in a future border poll. No ifs, no buts, no maybes.

“There is a constitutional obligation on the Irish government – including as a co-guarantor of the Agreement - to advance the objective of unity."