Page 9 - Border Poll News Today

Emma DeSouza says there are many people from certain backgrounds in Northern Ireland that might surpirse you when it comes to a Border Poll.

Northern Ireland has begun a "decade of opportunity" during which it will hold a vote on unification with Ireland, the UK territory's first nationalist leader said in an interview aired Sunday.A 1998 peace deal largely ended the violence and provides for the possibility of an all-Ireland vote on unification, often referred to as a border poll. 

O’Neill made history today by becoming Stormont’s first nationalist First Minister.

The government feared that any redrawing of the Border and a resultant population transfer to the Republic from the North might involve an unaffordable cost for an economy already struggling to fight off recession.

The only issue Sinn Fein cares about is “creating division and instability”, a DUP MLA has said, after Mary Lou McDonald speculated that a border poll could be held within the lifetime of the next Dail.

The only issue Sinn Fein cares about is “creating division and instability”, a DUP MLA has said, after Mary Lou McDonald speculated that a border poll could be held within the lifetime of the next Dail.

Sinn Fein is already in election mode, with leader Mary Lou McDonald making a pitch for the Taoiseach’s office.

Sinn Fein is already in election mode, with leader Mary Lou McDonald making a pitch for the Taoiseach’s office.

With this wretched Tory government lurching towards its doom, it is difficult at this stage to see anything other than a Labour victory at the next general election.

A border poll would be comprehensively defeated if staged in Northern Ireland tomorrow, a new survey suggests.