Republic of Ireland as part of the UK?

they charged us 1% over what they had to pay and agreed to remove the clause stating their loans had to be repaid first, so that we could repay the IMF loan that had a higher interest rate. The British tax payer also ended up bailing out Ulsterbank and taking the hit on the results loans they had dished out. They did this to prevent a fire sale of properties in the UK that Irish banks had lent money for. KBC bank had to do the same for its Irish subsidiaries.
don’t underestimate the huge impact the Irish property bubble had on other countries, our banks and property developers caused a lot of more harm than to just us and the actions of the government afterwards had a huge knock on effect as well.

Andy Pollack is a journalist who blogs on these matters. I have been reading him for years.
He is from a Unionist background and has that siege mentality that Unionism still can't get past.

The problem he and you have is that you have a vision of what pro-UIers want a UI to be, that isn't based in any reality.

I asked you to elaborate on this:

A border poll under the conditions envisaged by Sinn Fein

but of course you won't because it would be a slanted biased account full of republicans wreaking revenge for what they went through in first 80 years of NI.

I.E. you cannot back it up. It would also be completely useless as SF will not be 'setting the conditions for a border poll, that is already laid out by international agreement.

You seem to think that because an idea has been mentioned that that is enough to make it credible, what you and Andy Pollack have not addressed is getting majority democratic support for what would be an extension/life support of partition to favour bitter partitionists and Unionists.

If we get to a border poll that is going to be a very difficult if not impossible argument to make, and I see it very much remaining subject matter for journalists because a politician (certainly not a southern one I can think of or envisage)will not go near it.

Nobody has to tell / sell U anything-

50 + 1 is just needed- U can just be part of the minority that did not want a United Ireland 32-

If I were to look for one word (or 2 if one wants to be pedantic) for why Ireland will never be part of the UK again, it would be the Famine. Likewise one word why Ukraine will never again be part of a Russia dominated union, Holodomor.

BofI and AIB’s operations in the UK didn’t need bailing out because they didn’t have the same level of bad debt. That was what the bailout was for, to stop them selling all of those assets in a panic, causing a massive hit to the commercial property market in the UK and then using the money to bail out the Irish operations.

In the 20th century far more people fleed from Ireland to the UK than from the UK to Ireland. And in the generations following independence, the % of Catholics in N.I. increased, while the % of Protestants in the 26 counties decreased. Two sides to the story. Sin sceil eile.

If it wasn't for the EU Ireland would be back in the UK. This country needs a sugar daddy to be 'independent'.

More likely as a US colony

Is there a point here?

I will remind you, (as the British were tragically reminded when it was too late and now have majority Brexit regret) the UK got almost as much out of the EU as they put in. Even the Queen benefited from it.

I said the UK were the second biggest net contributors to the EEC / EU : do you not know what "net" means?

As regards "The UK is paying France hundreds of millions of pounds to stop the boats leaving the French coast but, so far this year, the numbers of migrants arriving in the UK this way - most of whom go on to claim asylum - have reached record levels.", this exact quote is taken from the BBC article below:

I mentioned that the UK were net contributors to the EEC / EU funds. In other words, in financial terms, they paid in more to EEC / EU funds than they got out. That is a fact, not an opinion.

The argument about the benefits the UK got from being a member of the EU, the increased or decreased sales, the affect on its domestic manufacturing , the cheaper trading costs due to less barriers to trade and so on is a different debate.

The BBC reported "The UK is paying France hundreds of millions of pounds to stop the boats leaving the French coast" as a fact, not as an opinion. Do you think the BBC does not check what it presents as facts?

If you do not know anything about French / UK relations, google is your friend:

"

Under a three-year deal made in March 2023, the UK agreed to provide €541 million (around £476 million at the time of the agreement) between 2023/24 and 2025/26. France agreed to make an unspecified “substantial and continuing” contribution".

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9681/

The same Gerry Adams who says he was never in the IRA even though most Irish people think he was? You think other Republicans, the Gardai, UK security forces, the intelligence services etc were all wrong in their opinion that he was?

Of course Adams choose Dublin as the place to sue the BBC.

Brexit was an example of a slight majority of people voting for a nice fluffy idea … a United Kingdom as some there hoped for without having to pay many billions in to EU funds, without EU red tape, without mass immigration etc. Their nice fluffy idea was s*ite, a bit like the nice fluffy idea of a U.I.