I feel compelled to respond to Ian O’Doherty’s column of last Saturday week, ‘A united Ireland is a fever dream that will simply end in carnage’. The most obvious takeaway was that O’Doherty is in no great rush for reunification – an opinion to which he is duly entitled.
He is not, however, entitled to measure the Irishness of his fellow citizens.
While depicting a dated snapshot of the differences between the north and the south, O’Doherty informed us that he quite likes Northern Ireland and its people, but adds: “I will never consider them as Irish as I am.”
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Slim majority believe Irish abroad should vote in presidential elections Poll shows 52 per cent think all Irish citizens living overseas should get vote at home
Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 09:47
A narrow majority of people believe that all Irish citizens with valid passports who are living abroad should be allowed to vote in future presidential elections, a new poll shows.
Some 52 per cent of 1,131 people asked by polling company Ireland Thinks last month said that all Irish citizens abroad should be entitled to vote, with 39 per cent opposed to the idea.
The survey found that 56 per cent of respondents said Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom should be allowed to vote. Some 43 per cent were opposed.
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