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

Varadkar doubling down on his views.
There are many including myself, who have said there is a change in attitude happening and this is a manifestation of it.
There will be a phase of denying no doubt but the momentum continues.

I guess some people don't subscribe to jobs at any cost to your principles.

If you are anti war or neutral, then be that.
Being a First Minister For All' does not mean being dishonest.

Contrast this stance to a Green stance on LNG plants? Should we not welcome the employment and benefits of an LNG plant? Is it 'a necessary evil'?

I don't necessarily agree with her position or the Green one, but they have a right to express their views.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, MoN and a large part of who she represents do not see those they remember as 'terrorists' as Gavin Robinson and those he represents don't see the BA and Loyalists as 'terrorists' or Michael Martin and who he represents don't see those who fought for our freedom as 'terrorists'. They all terrorised people here at various times.

Sooner or later the conversation on 'how do you allow people to commemorate their dead' has to be and will be had.

She hasn't blocked the jobs. She has given an opinion on the jobs and what is being produced. Every other leader in the free world 'gives their opinion' including her partner in office, who is doing and saying what she believes is the right thing. Same as any other party leader will do on their core principles. That is why I mentioned the Greens, it is not whataboutery to say that. It's a statement of actual fact.

Robinson & Martin are not the First Minister celebrating terrorists whose victims are still suffering from the acts of those terrorists. Again you are just deflecting from MON's inability to be an impartial leader or one who can empathise with the victims and their ongoing suffering.

Robinson and his predecessors have not even owned up to their party's involvement in 'terror' and militant organisations, does not call out similar memorials in his own community and of course celebrates the BA every single year. All of whom created 'victims' too. FF and FG had no issues celebrating those who terrorised and killed when victims were still alive and suffering. That is what happens after all major conflicts and wars.

The 'FM for all' is an attempt to begin healing some of that divide, and has been partially successful, it is not and never was going to be a 'capitulation' to viewing things through a Unionist or British lens.

It's still a divided society, and as one, still has much work to be done. Part of that is getting to a place where both sides can remember with respect and empathy.

which is part of her job as First Minister.

Where does it say this in her job description? This is again signs that you don't fully understand what the NI Assembly/Executive is, it is not an autonomous 'government' like we have. These jobs have not come as a result of what a 'government' of NI wanted. They have come because of something the actual government of the UK wants. She gave her opinion on that, as Little-Pengelly will give her opinion on i.e. the Westminster imposed Protocol etc

Again with the whataboutery - we're not talking about Robinson because he is not the FM!

Ok, apply the same comment to ELP, the deputy FM.

MON wants to take a stand against the US turning its back on Ukraine

SF are making a stand against Trumps intentions for Gaza.

but it is clear that she does not want Ukraine to get help from Europe if it means that the defence mechanisms are manufactured in NI.
She is happy to celebrate her war against the British. She is just against every other war?
She is a hypocrite and yet again showing that she is unfit for the role as FM.

She said:

 the focus of the international community "should always be to work towards negotiation and peace settlements".

She represents a party and a community that has been able to do that.

A 'FM for all' includes speaking for her own community which is a part of that 'all'.
A 'deputy FM for all' would accept that and speak for her part of the 'all'.
Nobody is issuing a block or a decree or a petition of concern on this. The Assembly is a place for opinions/views to be expressed.

I guess you were not listening when she defined what she meant by a FM for all.
She is expressing an opinion as all party leaders do in the Assembly. Those who think

the focus of the international community "should always be to work towards negotiation and peace settlements".

do not just come from 'one' community. they come form all across society in NI, Nationalist, Unionist and neither, just as they do here.

Not for the first time, you see this as a slight on the Unionist community, the fear of offending the community you believe must not be offended strikes deep in the partitionist heart.

What O'Neill has gone out of her way to do in reaching out to that 'community' in other ways is second to none in NI political life. But of course you don't have the charity to see that.

So are commemorations and celebrations of the actions of the British Army and their colluders ok?
You are still a part of the problem if you only want to stop the commemorations of one side in a conflict all sides have said via the GFA. they were partly responsible for.
'There are things we did we would rather not have done'* worked for the British, so that works for all combatants here and the sooner you come to terms with that and accept all sides have to be allowed remember their dead, the better for you.

*A comment by the Commander in Chief of the British Armed Forces, Queen Elizabeth 2nd.

Given the sectarianism within the security services and that many loyalist paramilitaries relied on security forces for weapons, ammunition, intelligence and the ability to turn a blind eye as & when suited; you're continued whitewashing of them is always incorrect.

The IRA and other groups, were not better funded than the security forces of Northern Ireland or the British Army; to put that down in black and white again shows the limits of your knowledge and tenuous relationship with the truth.

The, again rehashed, example of the Smithwick tribunal in no way demonstrates a comparable level of collusion nor sectarianism between continuous Northern Irish security and policing institutions. It's a failing attempted you've continued to utilise; 'if you haven't got the stats, just make the stats you have seem applicable'.

In the hypothetical case of a United Ireland, would groups like Kneecap instead of urging their impressionable young followers to "Kill a Tory MP" instead urge their fans to kill a Unionist politician, as in the past the lads in balaclavas did not differentiate between killing a Tory MP, a Northern Unionist MP or even a FG politician here - they killed them all?

I think in the aftermath of Brexit - and the way they were lied to and their loyalty and allegiance was thrown to wolves basically - that many unionists are figuring out that the British just don't care what happens them at all. Boom or bust.