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Soon after I started to live and work as a GP in Carrickmore in late 1986, I was informed of the infamous ‘Ballygawley Line’ – hearing it described as the most dangerous stretch of road in the north and one of the worst in all of Ireland.
If it is plausible to think referendums on Irish unity could happen this decade, it would be prudent to plan for that possibility
CALLING for a united Ireland referendum without a clear plan in place for what follows would be “highly unwise”, according to an expert report.The
John Finucane said: “The conversation on a new Ireland is already well underway and now there is a need to formally and practically start preparations for a referendum on constitutional change. “We want to have an informed, reasoned and mature debate on what a new Ireland will look like and how it can be achieved and that requires preparation. “Now is the time for those preparations to begin in earnest. “That is also the view on the way forward in a report published today by the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. “In particular, the Irish go...
Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 10.01 EDT Brexit has shown the dangers of failing to plan fully for the consequences of referendums, so what would happen if we were to get one about unifying Ireland? There appears to be no chance of political leaders on both sides in Northern Ireland buying into the kind of pre-designed outcomes a referendum would require. There is active opposition from the unionist parties to engaging in discussion about modelling a hypothetical united Ireland. “Why would we talk about unification? That would be like discussing our own suicide,” said one leading unionis...