“I said at that stage two things have to happen,” Mr Ahern told Newstalk.
“One is that we have to have institutions under the Good Friday Agreement that were stable for a prolonged period – we haven’t had that ever since the agreement in 23 years,” Mr Ahern told Newstalk.
It was an absolute understanding to bring republicans and nationalists on side, that somewhere in the future would be a poll.
Bertie Ahern
“I don’t like the idea of ‘border poll’, because it is an issue of sovereignty and how it will happen.
“The second point I made was the propriety work that made sense of all of this, which has really only commenced. There’s the Shared Island unit, which is something I support.
Border poll should take place in 2028, says Bertie Ahern Bertie Ahern said a border poll should take place 30 years after the Good Friday Agreement. Picture by Liam McBurney/PA Wire Cate McCurry, PA 01 February, 2021 14:38
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that a border poll on a united Ireland should be held on the 30th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
The former Fianna Fáil leader said that while a referendum on a united Ireland is not for now , the right time to have one would be in 2028.
Mr Ahern said that he raised the issue when he met with former US senator George Mitchell, former British prime minister Tony Blair and former US president Bill Clinton to mark the 20th anniversary of the agreement.