In a letter circulated to some residents of Ballinfoile Park this week, the City Council notified them of a public discussion on building houses on the green spaces in the estate.
Leo Varadkar’s flirtation with open borders has awoken the sleeping beast of Irish nationalism. A nursing home in Co Dublin which was being considered for housing for asylum seekers has this week been destroyed in a suspected arson attack. Hundreds of people have thundered through the streets of the capital in recent months, brandishing Irish flags and chanting “get them out” about the government as part of an anti-immigration protest.
The recent deal to restore power-sharing at Stormont, and the trend of events and surveyed opinion in Northern Ireland since Brexit suggest to many that a united Ireland is becoming ever more likely, even inevitable. Irish Republicans however should curb their enthusiasm. If and when Irish unity does happen they might find themselves regretting that they have achieved their desire. A united Ireland would not only pose enormous challenges of economic and political management, it would expose cent