The Full Speech By The EU Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier To The Oireachtas
Today’s address by Michel Barnier, the European Union’s lead Brexit negotiator, to a joint session of Oireachtas Éireann indicates justContinue Reading
Tag: Reunited Ireland
Gaming The Good Friday Agreement By Insisting On A Super-Majority Vote
The core principle of the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and all associated accords is the understanding thatContinue Reading
Brendan Howlin, The Labour Party And A Reunited Ireland
My view on our mainstream political parties discussing the reunification of Ireland has always been: put up or shut up.Continue Reading
The Unionist Dilemma In Ireland, Self-Interest Versus Nationality In A Post-Brexit Europe
Jonathan Powell, the former chief of staff to prime minister Tony Blair and the lead negotiator for the United Kingdom duringContinue Reading
Initially, A United Ireland Would Be Neither Federal Or Confederal
As the Irish Times has noted, talk of a reunited Ireland is very much in the air. This is reflected inContinue Reading
Ex-UK Minister And Party Leader, Brexit Must Lead To A Reunited Ireland
Vince Cable, the former leader of the centre-left Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and a senior minister in theContinue Reading
A Reunited Ireland And The Rejectionist Politics Of Northern Unionism
A longer guest post by Mark Petticrew, a politics’ student at the University Of Ulster Jordanstown, examining the contrasting obstacles British unionismContinue Reading
Ulster Unionism, Sustained By The Politics Of Appeasement
At the start of the twentieth century a majority of voters on the island of Ireland in the referendum-style generalContinue Reading
Likelihood Of A Brexit Border In Ireland Grows As UK Rejects Human Rights Convention
In 1992 the Associated Press distributed a newspaper report examining the United Kingdom’s then practice of using “human shields” toContinue Reading
Regional Autonomy For North-East Ulster, A United Ireland For Slow Learners
As the negative effects of the successful Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom continue to ripple across this island nationContinue Reading
The Threat Of The Brexit Barrier In Ireland Hasn’t Gone Away You Know
With many observers focusing on the possibility of renewed instability stemming from the threatened “hardening” of the UK-imposed “border” between the north-east of IrelandContinue Reading
A Clear Majority Favours The Reunification Of Ireland
The British apologists of the Irish news media, led by a coterie of decrepit newspaper columnists, have claimed for decades that, “…no one wants aContinue Reading
To Reunite Or Not Reunite, That Is The Question. For Ireland’s Worried Elites
Is it just me, or is the Continuity State going through a period of existential crisis?
The SDLP And Colum Eastwood: Make Me Green, But Not Just Yet
So is it Colum Eastwood, the SDLP leader, or the members of the press who are sending mixed messages on the regional party’sContinue Reading
Kenny And Martin Wrap The Green Flag Around A Finger Or Two
The post-referendum effects of the Brexit vote in the UK continue to ripple out across the European Union, lapping up onContinue Reading
Ireland’s British Problem And England’s New Motto, Ourselves Alone
I’ve been travelling and working overseas for the last wee while which has left me with precious little time, energy orContinue Reading
Following On From Brexit Is It Now Time For UnityRef?
There is more than a little irony for Scotland in the negative outcome of the United Kingdom’s plebiscite on its continued membership ofContinue Reading
Taking The British Gun Out Of Irish Politics
For several hundred years the British, in one form or another, have been violently attempting to occupy and annex theContinue Reading
British Unionism In Ireland And Its Tea Party Moment
Over on the Slate journalist Reihan Salam has an interesting examination of the electoral demographic which forms the backbone of the DonaldContinue Reading
