To say that we should prepare for a new Ireland in advance of a border poll is to state the bleedin’ obvious. Those who claim it would cause division are like a family which knows it will probably move to a new home fifty miles down the road soon, but never mention the move in case it might upset the children.
Brian Feeney –‘New study shows financial benefits of a united Ireland’ (June 1) – claims that according to economists, professors Seamus McGuinness and Adele Bergin of the Economic and Social Research Institute, the biggest long-term unification costs might be in bringing what unionists claim is the north’s ‘world-class’ education system up to modern standards.