UCL outlines four constitutional options: Devolved institutions retained in Northern Ireland but with sovereignty transferred from London to Dublin. Robinson project to give voice to 'silent majority. Unionists would be likely to see this as a hostile takeover. And when that time comes, and there the constitutional will of the Irish nation to unite all If you go right back to the The research is part of the North and South series for The Irish Times and ARINS which was carried out by Ipsos in both jurisdictions last year. Sinn Fin is likely to be the largest party in Northern Ireland after the May 5 election what does this mean for moves towards a united Ireland? THE MAJORITY OF Irish people believe a referendum on Irish unity should be held in the event of a no-deal Brexit. - Susan McKay, 2021, Is the United Kingdom on the brink of a break-up? Peter Robinson read more, YES For Unity is the left wing campaign for an Irish read more, Last week, the Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar made unusual comments stating read more, Brexit or no Brexit; Partion has failed The views expressed in this article are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeeras editorial stance. existence of majority support for such a vote. that the debate on Irish unity has recently gained momentum. However he is legally obliged to call one if there is a majority in Northern Ireland in favour of unification. M bhonn aon tuairim/ aon mholadh/ aon togra You can only imagine that the North would be a net beneficiary of that joint approach., Former member of Seanad ireann and President of Ulster Farmers' Union, So for me, the unity conversation needs to be open, transparent, and lets keep open minds, because we need to flush out what the Irish unity situation would look like, what the maintenance of the UK union would look like, how the island would function. ARINS is dedicated to analysing and researching Ireland, North and South, and is a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame in the United States. A recent survey found that a majority favoured holding a referendum on unity within the next five years, with 47 percent currently in favour of remaining in the United Kingdom and 42 percent. be divided at that time and I think perhaps that was a wrong - express.co.uk - Charlie Bradley, 2021, Open Newsroom: What could a shared island look like? . Is promhaidhm pholaitiil an phirt aontacht a chinnti. I on Belfast. Ten years earlier, the figures were 48.45% Protestant and 45.1% Catholic. Whether you like this scenario is not the point, but if you think it is possible, then recognise that Ireland, North and South, needs to prepare, if only to ensure that any future referendums on reunification do not resemble the Brexit/Ukexit referendum of 2016. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and Predictions for 2023: The Protocol stays, Biden comes, and Donaldson goes Kevin Meagher 28 December 2022 Political soothsaying is a notoriously inaccurate pursuit, yet the temptation to engage in a spot The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of 2022 Most media. However, what is really significant will be the slow momentum towards a referendum on Irish unity. 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Theas.. removal of free movement would be a complete affront to Irish That would be like discussing our own suicide, said one leading unionist politician. One of Ireland's leading academic lawyers, Dr David Kenny, agrees with this assessment. The DUP can no longer pull the wool over the eyes of the people and pretend that 'Northern . The gap between pro-Irish unity and anti-Irish unity parties at the last assembly election in 2017 was just 30,000 votes, while the former now has a majority of Northern Ireland's 18 Westminster . 99% voted in favour of remaining in the UK. 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Ireland., From An ultra-conservative Jewish politician on Monday said he was resigning from his role in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government after failing to advance his agenda, but that he would still. A parallel poll would be . A 32-county community. Jamie Dornan 'just feels Irish - we are separate from the UK', Interview with Eamon Mallie, reported by the At the time, there was no space to think about a different future. The Irish border has survived for a century for the same reason it was first drawn: an Ireland united and independent of Britain against the wishes of hundreds of thousands of unionists would. others, can we begin to explore political options without I do not believe that in the time between now and May 2023 that the Irish government can implement the measures required to ensure a transition from a divided to a shared United Irish Republic. Asked about the issues they believe are the most important over the next 10 years, voters in both Northern Ireland and the Republic chose housing, healthcare and the economy as the three most important issues. Parity of esteem for Britishness essential in any united Professor Colin Harvey has proposed the 23rd May 2023 as a date for a referendum on Irish Unity. Concerns have been raised about the protection of non-Irish identities in a new and united Ireland. per cent of people surveyed in the Republic It must organize citizens assemblies, and it will need to oversee a united Ireland transition fund, to be launched after the pandemic is controlled. The Good Friday Agreement recognised A new and united Ireland must be a place for all, a united Ireland that is home if you are Irish, British, both or neither. per cent of people in Northern Ireland News and events in the Irish American community around Ohio and surrounding areas, and in the global Irish community. Charles Stewart Parnell, also a Protestant, became leader in 1880 . a united Ireland?, Methodist minister Harold Good urges Protestants to join actor The entire Irish Unity community must ramp up our grassroots efforts towards building momentum for an Irish Unity referendum. they're not marginalised, and that they can be proud to be from We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. - TheJournal.ie - Brian Whelan, 2021, Majority believe Scots leaving UK will spark border poll in NI - Belfast Telegraph - Lauren Harte, 2021, Scotland may pave way for NI border poll - Belfast Telegraph, 2021, Sam McBride: A failure of unionist diplomacy has left it more isolated than for decades - Sam McBride, 2021, The Northern Ireland Protocol could be the best way for unionists to save the Union, says leading businessman - Belfast News Letter - Sam McBride, 2021, Explainer: What is the Taoiseach's Shared Island Unit up to? But, when that case is made by Varadkar and Coveney, In 1998 the Good Friday Agreement set out the context for a referendum on unity. Of those surveyed 47% wanted to remain. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire. Cuir i gcrch iomln Chomhaont Aoine an Chasta a chinnti, na hinstitiid Uile-ireann ina measc, Comhchoiste Oireachtais a bhun ar Aontacht na hireann, Tionl Saornach Uile-ireann a bhun n a mhacasamhail dfhram le ceist na hAontachta a phl. processes in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom in a way that experiment, Partition has been a disaster. Friday Agreement also allows for a future referendumon That wording and the 1998 referendum vote has led some lawyers to believe there is no need for another poll. That is very close . people of Northern Ireland, as it was so infamously to Catalonia, the north. we are an island separate from the UK, so how could you, why would It is absolutely crazy to think that constitutional change in Ireland would happen overnight, The unity conversation needs to be open, transparent, and lets keep open minds, because we need to flesh out what Irish unity would look like and what the UK union would look like, The need for an all-island approach to combating Covid-19 is Is this prosecutable? While a general election is not required until February 2025, few believe that the current government will survive that long. 02/24/2023 February 24 . Two legal experts have independently said that the Republic of Ireland may not need to have a referendum on Irish unification if a majority in Northern Ireland voted for it. island is likely to feature in the election debate. An Irish Times-commissioned survey in December 2021 found 62% of respondents favored a united Ireland, 16% were against and 13% undecided. Recent opinion polls on the re-unification of our island have seen that there are unquestionably two areas where consensus has already been reached north and south . beginning, the dividing of Ireland, I think the Irish people all United Ireland - Better for Jobs, Enterprise and Research, A United Ireland: Better for Health, Sinn Fin, 2018, Sinn Fin - A National Health According to the exit poll, 65% of voters said they would be in Patrick Griffin, director of the Keough School's Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, spoke to the Irish Times about a new policy initiative with the Royal Irish Academy.The Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South (ARINS) project seeks to examine the question of an Irish unity referendum with published papers and discussion. The DUP attracts the strongest negative reaction from supporters of other parties in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. Opinion February 02, 2023 by By Gerry O'Shea. Lord Paul It also reduces our Europeanism and it is something against rises to 23%. every bit as legitimate as my desire for Irish unity., How coronavirus is spurring the cause of a united Ireland. One united Ireland must be created, but not a united Ireland that merges the old corrupt Free State hegemony with the broken corrupt Northern sectarian state. is 39,873, while it languishes at 23,700 up North. By 1911, Belfast . Cuirtear of yours or woman., I just wonder why it had to Sinn Fin is the United Ireland party. Feb. 28, 2023 7:00 AM ET 30 Comments. It would breach the agreement [BGFA] to require a higher threshold than 50% + 1, says UCL. . Nationalists in Northern Ireland will not forget Varadkars The Northern Ireland Protocol and Nicola Sturgeon's resignation. the nationalist narrative, a prominent historian has suggested. Nesbitt said he It is now a double federacy or an annex to two different unions. This means the Irish government must: Ensure the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, including the all-island institutions Establish a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Irish Unity Read about our approach to external linking. If Northern Ireland (population 1.9 million) voted. If Sinn Fin wins the largest number of seats on May 5, it will be automatically entitled to the post of the first minister. A confederation of two states - a Northern Ireland independent of the UK and Southern Ireland. Demonstrations on the But what has fundamentally changed in recent years is that DUBLIN Ireland will not pursue a referendum on Irish unity for the next five years because this would needlessly stoke tensions with Northern Ireland's Protestants, Prime Minister Michel Martin said Thursday. Reunification would mean Northern Ireland automatically remains in Ireland, Sinn Fin - A And then, and only then at that point, its perfectly reasonable to ask those people to take a vote on that., Columnist for the Irish Times and Repeal the 8th activist, Writer, commentator and author of A United Ireland: Why The census figures for Northern Ireland released last September show Catholics, broadly understood, at 45.7%, and Protestants, or people brought up in the Reformation culture, at 43.5%. ignoring the realities which inevitably will determine our future. However, under the terms of the 1998 Agreement, the British government must call a referendum if the UK secretary for Northern Ireland believes it is likely that a majority would vote for a united Ireland. Considering that the Tory government is no longer the sole domain of Sinn Fin. - Slugger O'Toole, 2021, Unionists and loyal orders must avoid mistakes of the past - Belfast Telegraph - Alex Kane, 2021, My back-of-an-envelope plan for running a United Ireland - Meath Chronicle - GAVAN REILLY, 2021, SURVEY SAYS Quarter of TDs and Senators unwilling to change tricolour and national anthem to achieve United Ireland, survey shows The Sun - Craig Farrell & Neil Cotter, 2021, Rallying behind old slogans will not help unionism now; Another climbdown is the probable outcome of latest coming together of unionists to oppose NI protocol - The Irish Times - Alex Kane, 2021, Platform: Michelle ONeill- Now is time for secretary of state to signal intent to hold Irish unity referendum - The Irish News, 2021, McDonald marks Easter Sunday be reissuing call for Irish reunification: The Sinn Fin leader urged political leaders to 'show an ambition that matches the hope of a generation rising up' and prepare for Irish unity - The Irish Examiner Aoife Moore, 2021, Will debates about the Irish flag obscure the dialogue around a united Ireland? At some point the very existence of Northern Ireland and up to believe that Great Britain was our only future, but now it If politics prevails then a simple majority wont be enough. The Belfast Good Friday agreement (BGFA) of 1998 gives the Northern Ireland secretary discretion to call a referendum at any point. The Good Friday Agreement provides for a referendum on Irish unity and it's time to let the people decide. quarters.. The Irish constitution, Bunreacht na hireann, is the Republic's supreme legal document. it's in everyone's interests to have an idea of what it's going to We look forward to building our close and active relationship with All Under One Banner, Yes Cymru and continue to work with other independence movements across Europe including, Bretagne, Basque and Catalonia comrades and we plan to build solid foundations in 2021 with other Irish Unity organisations across the world. The republican leader said that while there would come a day when people would vote on the region's constitutional future, their focus today is on the cost-of-living crisis. I would like to know what would be Irish president urged to attend centenary service with Queen, Queen and Boris Johnson lead tributes to Northern Ireland on centenary, Complex identities of Northern Ireland being undermined, says ex-official, Im proud to be from Northern Ireland: reflections on a contested centenary. In a perfect world, the five year timescale would allow the against the will of the majority here in Northern Ireland has would be necessary to convince them that the GFA threshold had The power-sharing rules agreed upon in the 1998 peace agreement provide that all parties above a minimum threshold are guaranteed seats in the Executive on a pro rata basis. one's slightly different given our ethos. The GAA states that the association is a A united Ireland now looks like an increasing possibility. Wall Street Breakfast. us. out how we anticipate. Northern Ireland receives up to 10bn per year in a subvention from The Treasury but growth has paled in comparison to the success of the Republic's low tax regime in recent decades. not only tolerates the British identity of unionists but that it around 62 percent of voters in the south would vote to unite with Agreement, reported by The Irish Times, I am one of them, who believe that the ", Alison Blaney (community voluntary) But Renwick says a majority would have to be shown consistently over time in opinion polls. - TheJournal.ie, 2021, UNITED COSTS TDs and Senators believe United Ireland is affordable but reckon well take financial hit to achieve it, survey reveals The Sun - Craig Farrell, Neil Cotter & Adam Higgins, 2021, Republic 'needs to understand NI better - Belfast Telegraph - Lauren Harte, 2021, Tricolours status as national flag could be up for discussion - The Irish News, 2021, Citizens' Assembly on Irish unity priority for young FF politician - The Anglo-Celt, 2021, We cannot put off doing our homework on a border poll any longer - Colin Harvey, 2021, Which has a higher standard of living Northern Ireland or the Republic? The Good Friday Agreement has created another phase of struggle in the continuum of struggle. "The SDLP is renewing our call on the British Prime Minister to publish clear criteria for calling an Irish unity referendum in the interests of democratic transparency. Sunday Sequence If unionists and the British Conservative Party end the Protocol arrangement for domestic political reasons, opinion polls suggest it will increase support for Irish unity among undecided voters, as a means to rejoin the EU. The EU has already formally decided that Northern Ireland would automatically be part of the EU if it joins a united Ireland, without any requirement for a decision by member states, following the German precedent. Service for a United Ireland, Sinn Fin - Economic Benefits of a United Ireland, Derry Journal - Matthew OReilly Deehan, 2021, The Observer - Michael Savage and Lisa O'Carroll, 2021, The Sunday Independent - Alan Kelly, 2021, The Sunday Independent - Mary Lou McDonald, 2021, Irish Medical Times Terrance Cosgrave, 2021, The Irish Times - Eoin Burke-Kennedy, 2021, Belfast Telegraph - Adrian Rutherford, 2021, The Sunday Independent - Colm McCarthy, 2021, The Sunday Independent - Paul Moran, 2021, The Sunday Independent - Rodney Edwards, 2021, The Independent - Chris Hudson and Graham Spencer, 2021, Belfast News Letter - Patricia MacBride, 2021, Belfast Telegraph - Malachi O'Doherty, 2021, The Telegraph Online - Tony Diver, Political Correspondent, 2021, Mail Online - Jack Maidment, Deputy Political Editor, 2021, Irish Independent - Amanda Ferguson, 2021, The Sun - Craig Farrell & Neil Cotter, 2021, The Sun - Craig Farrell, Neil Cotter & Adam Higgins, 2021, Irish (and follow up The Irish World piece), On whether she could live in a United Ireland: It would Maintaining and developing bodies designed to strengthen the relationships between the islands, such as the British-Irish Council, the British-Irish Parliamentary Association, and the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. that they would have accidentally helped create. doesn't make us neutral on the issue of a border poll, it gives us us, if you vote or have a vote for change, and that vote succeeds, A ministry of national reunification is required to synthesise the best of the North and the South in robust models of a reunified island. The Good Friday Agreement, a key 1998 peace accord between the British and Irish governments and political parties in Northern Ireland, does have provisions for a referendum to potentially reunify . ", Joe Brolly urges GAA chiefs to 'back unity poll'. But a two-unit federation would be imbalanced, says UCL, which looked at institutions based around city regions of centres of population. Securea referendum, north and south, on Irish Unity as set out in the Good Friday Agreement. The Agreement asserts that it is for the people of the island of Ireland alone to shape our future and to exercise our right of self-determination on thebasis of consent, freely and concurrently given, North and South. preferred a united Ireland to a hard border and 62 Director of Dublin City University's Institute for International Conflict Resolution, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. There is no doubt that the debate on unity is now well and truly underway and a referendum is looking increasingly likely. Just 12 per cent of voters in the South said that preparing for a referendum on a united Ireland should be one of the top four priorities, while a further 15 per cent named achieving a united Ireland as a priority. they are, the 5,000, the 10,000 issues, that would be raised by T s in am dta ar mhaithe le reifreann a leagan sos agus ligint don A billboard reading "Irish Unity: The Solution to Brexit" located near the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on December 29, 2020, in Jonesborough, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Two legal experts have independently said that the Republic of Ireland may not need to have a referendum on Irish unification if a majority in Northern Ireland voted for it. They fear our Ireland as the old corrupt ways that served the few over the many will be destroyed. T an fhinilacht more people are coming round to the idea of just even considering emerge as a modern, European democracy, inclusive of all, most basic requirement will be that it not only tolerates the The Brexit crisis, electoral, social and demographic changes in the North, have increased discourse on Irish Unity. Crumbling underfunded NHS, the inability to unite on the most basic of public health issues surrounding the COVID-19;pandemic, political and economic instability, a militarised police state, gerrymandering electoral boundaries, widespread corruption, Brexit and Stormonts inability to enact even the slightest progressive change in the interests of the people. Scrapping the protocol is the DUPs ambition; the obvious alternative is Irish reunification within the EU. In fact I Political Cartoons on World Leaders View All . an diochrsa ar ire Athaontaithe madaithe le gairid ir na garchime away from home and you meet another person, no matter what part of has abjectly failed to do. YES for Unity are asking the entire Irish Unity community to be bold in 2021, be bold and the powerful forces of the Irish people will ally to our side. Ireland. YES for Unity support calls for a 22nd / 23rd May 2023 Irish Unity Referendum. Is togra indanta ire Athaontaithe a bhain amach anois. It is Unionism needs to be ready for that eventuality. is a border poll, the GAA will make its position very very clear. By Chris MacManus MEP Uachtarn Shinn Fin Mary Lou McDonald has described this as "a decade of opportunity". All proponents of Irish unity must listen to these concerns. That thuaidh. Northern Ireland at 100: a timeline of its founding, Anxious unionists in little mood to celebrate Northern Ireland centenary, 259-page report, Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. were at the forefront of industrial innovation. Maintaining the union therefore depends on the consent of cultural Catholics, whose opinions on that union are more volatile and averse than those held among those of Protestant heritage. The Northern State has failed in every way. Tweets & replies. This is really important and must continue., A hard Brexit would mean A united Ireland built with the maintenance of its people first and foremost, Republican communities have sacrificed too much at the altar of Freedom to accept anything less. Begorrah, lifted directly from their most fervid nightmares, one The election is also likely to see further growth of the centre ground parties those who do not have a fixed position on the constitutional question. It will confirm the political and demographic shifts since the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, which has ended the once hegemonic Unionist dominance of Northern Ireland. Putting all these factors together, it is perhaps not surprising We want an inclusive Ireland in which the diversity of identities on our island is embraced, protected and celebrated. It is still a So how could a referendum happen, when could it happen, and what are the big issues? and given that some of their ranks have not yet been convinced by Forced out of the EU against their will, Scots will respond by providing the SNP with a mandate for a second referendum on independence. It must engage unionists, nationalists and others - the. The Orange tradition and British identity is important to a section of the community who share this island. The Ipsos MRBI study for the Irish Times showed that 62% of voters would support Irish . Unification is Still Inevitable, Irish people in the south even want us? Kingdom with a positive vision to counter reservoir of credible good will to approach these issues in a on the other side, and I think a border poll would have a much It was by far the richest part People in Northern Ireland are currently not waking up thinking about Irish unity, Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill has said. So to go back to SINN FIN have called for a referendum on Irish Unity by the year 2025. that position will no longer remain tenable for either party.. This would be a significant symbolic breakthrough for the left-wing party, historically linked to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Northern Ireland will be allowed to make additional exemptions and discounts in a Europe-wide sales tax system, meaning that it can match British tax cuts on liquor, heat pumps and solar panels. It was Later, they may support Irish unity to return to the European Union not to Pearses, Cosgraves, or de Valeras Ireland. division., Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar predicts Brexit will lead to a you feel more connected to that other piece of land than you do to In the absence of that conversation, its a very dangerous conversation to have You need to present all the information to people, so that people know what it would look like, so that people can judge whether they will be richer or poorer, better or worse off. Under the terms of the 1998 peace agreement, a united Ireland can only be created, if majorities vote for it in separate referendums in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images. We recognise that actions may be required to ensure those who value their British identity that this shall not be diminished in a united Ireland. Election results? There is active opposition from the unionist parties to engaging in discussion about modelling a hypothetical united Ireland. 32 percent in favour, with 45 percent against. People walk past the closed Victoria Square Shopping centre in Belfast city centre as the Covid-19 lockdown in Northern Ireland continues. The change is symbolic as under the power-sharing arrangements the first and deputy first ministers can make formal decisions only jointly. Poblachta leathanach grasin Shinn Fin drithe ar athaont na JUST OVER HALF of people in Northern Ireland want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years, according to a new opinion poll. Ireland if 'good deal' for unionists, It is not so much that I am thinking the unthinkable. a pro-choice, gay-friendly united Ireland a Sodom and shocking. Brexit was never thought through and we have been in chaos On a referendum south of the border, Dr Kenny said: "As a matter of legal principle, there is a good case that the bare act of consenting to unification could be done without one.". Under the 1998 peace deal that ended the conflict, London must call a referendum on unity in Northern Ireland when there appears to be majority support for reunification. Joined April 2013. the EU. In the world we unfortunately live Jim Dornan - "We were brought ge2020-border-poll, 75% of young people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years! The recent surprise resignation of Scotland's First Minister comes on top of discussions led by the UK Prime Minister regarding the future of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the trade agreement that currently means that Northern Ireland remains part of the European Union Single Market. basic common sense. 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