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I SUSPECT there are a few people out there who were lighting candles that the Ireland’s Future event in the 3Arena  last Saturday would fail. The starting point for failure would be a smaller crowd than anticipated. The Irish Times on Friday noted that the 3Arena had capacity to hold 9,000. A statement of fact – or a high bar so that anything less might look like failure. What’s that – only 5,000?  Huh! Another point of attack, compliments of the Alliance Party, would be that the event was a celebration of the notion of a united Ireland. Except it wasn’t. We had speakers pointing up the difficulties, the weaknesses in the case for a united Ireland, as well as arguing for the benefits it would offer. To diverge for a moment: what did you make of (relatively) young Kyle Paisley’s apparently pro-united Ireland talk last week? He seemed to be predicting that a united Ireland was on its way. Another notable shoulder being applied to the united Ireland bandwagon?  Mmm, mayb

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