Former RUC chief believed united Ireland was inevitable

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A former RUC chief constable who served during some of the most violent years of the Troubles believed that a united Ireland was inevitable, according to a new book. 
Sir Jack Hermon, who served as Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) between 1980 and 1989, was strongly against any further integration of Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom, according to a posthumous memoir by senior British diplomat David Goodall.
"The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985" details a meeting with Hermon in January 1984, when the then-RUC chief revealed his thoughts on a united Ireland. 
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"In the long term, he thought the unification of Ireland in some form or other was inevitable, and he was strongly against any further integration of the province into the United Kingdom," Goodall wrote in the memoir. 

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