In the event of united Ireland could DUP attract a significant vote in the Republic / 26 Counties ?

 Even moderate nationalists like John Bruton was daubed "John Unionist Bruton" by some as an insult. His protestant colleague in Fine Gael, Billy Fox from co. Monaghan, was called a "B Special" in the Dail by two FF ministers, some time before Billy Fox was murdered by the pIRA.

The like of completely innocent unionist politicians "up north" like Edgar Graham and Robert Bradford were murdered by the pIRA. When the pIRA murdered completely innocent people up north because they did not agree with them, do you think everyone down here would tolerate such a viewpoint without any intimidation at least from some. And look what happened poor Charlie Bird 18 years ago on O'Connell st Dublin: he was knocked to the ground and assaulted by a mob who called him "an Orange Bastard". I have heard people taunted and called "West Brits" in a very menancing tone over less.

If there was a U.I., there would be no danger of  the DUP attracting a significant vote in the Republic / 26 Counties, because they would be intimidated or out. The railway stations were named after "patriots" when the British left the last time: if the British left N.I. , I bet the government would not be long re-naming the port at Larne " Bobby Sands port" or "Pearse McAuley Port".

Thats a good point. If there was a U.I. ( which there will not be for a few generations at least, but say if there was ) , would the number of TDs from "the 6 counties " increase, or the number of td's in the 26 decrease?

Minorites tend to keep their heads down when they are only 10 or 15% of the population or less. As noted before, the minority population ( ie Protestant ) decreased from 10% of the population to 3 % in the Republic of Ireland, where in N. Ireland in the same period the minority population there ( ie Catholic ) increased from 31% to forty something per cent. What does that tell you ?

Catholics have more children and are outbreeding Protestants!!

They were by their colonial heritage very 'attached' to the departing military/government infratstructure. They supported it and left with it. Some still miss it and would like us to attach ourselves to it again.

How many Irish Catholics were displaced from their own homes in the decades before this unprecedented and not repeated event which is claimed by some as ethnic cleansing and by others as reprisals for informing and spying Francis?

Killing that amount of people was unprecedented.

Nobody is suggesting there were no sectarian attacks.

There was no systemic and coordinated sectarian discrimination on the scale of what happened in the 50 year one party system created by Unionists for Unionists in the north. And no history of any credibility states that.

Ah, the librarian again. 😁

Research gerrymandering and the voting system and get back to us.

There is no comparison to what happened in the south which is why you cannot find a credible history that says they were comparable.

You are right, there is no comparison when you look at the facts and they are not comparable.

Even though 3000 of the 7000 jobs in the RUC were reserved for Catholics when it was set up, why did Devalera say, and I paraphrase, if he had one job to offer and two applicants, one protestant and one catholic, he would always give the job to the catholic.

Once things settle down I can’t see why that wouldn’t happen.

Still peddling the 18% catholic UDR as a shining light nonsense despite being directed to the truth I see?

And the Wexford and Cork cases you constantly lean on…I'm sure the librarian will be brought out to bat again.

If your going to decry the Protestant 'discrimination' in ROI you'll have to use some of the more prominent reasons they left and numbers declined at some stage in your blather.