Irish unity
Varadkar cautions against supermajority in any future Irish unity vote
The Taoiseach said there is not enough talk to convince people in Northern Ireland “that a united Ireland would be a warm home for them”.
Steve Baker says Brexit vote ‘probably should have been a supermajority’
The Northern Ireland Office minister and leading Brexiteer acknowledged the referendum would have failed under a supermajority.
The Irish News View: Time for a Citizens' Assembly
"There is still work to be done for Ireland… Irishmen cannot relax their efforts until, in addition to national self-government – the main object for which we are now contending – they secure an efficient system of local legislation…"
Varadkar criticises ‘double standards’ applied to Irish and UK ministers
Leo Varadkar spoke out at his party’s think-in event in Limerick.
Denis Bradley: North's politics is a case study of resistance to change
Why do people fight change? Why do they stand in the way against something that, in their heart of hearts, they know is inevitably going to happen? I have never fully understood that aspect of human behaviour.
Tom Collins: Long-running Irish government farce undermining unity
Few eyebrows will have been raised north of the border at this week’s revelations that the Irish government bungled the Boundary Commission post-partition.