How many of us think that unification is no longer a priority and don't really want unification ?

Life expectancy is longer in RoI.

Ultimately but not for a very long time. Also a decent majority vote like 70 or 80%. Any 51% vote in the near term will bring violence back.

I am 2 years trying to find a GP, so I seriously doubt that figure. More like the HSE don't have all the numbers.

Typical stupid statement from boards user.

Just because of my experience then something else must not be true.

Life expectancy, which is a key indicator of income, education and access to health services, is longer in the South with men living two years longer and women 1.5 years longer.

In 2022 life expectancy was 80.9 years for men and 84.2 for women in the Republic compared to 78.9 and 82.7 in the North.

Having life expectancy higher in ROI isn't necessarily down to a superior health service. It's likely down to the article title of higher living standards in ROI giving health and longevity benefits.

The North is an economic basket case. Massive social welfare spending which the British government would love to get rid of and Ireland cannot afford to take on. I think it would be a close run thing in the South and a definite no in the North.

Whatever happens, It should not be forced down peoples throats! All the old romantic reasons aren't important. Peace is the only factor that matters and a border poll that might suggest that it could narrowly pass should be avoided like the plague.

Personally, I don't think we should force unification on people who feel more British no matter how small that minority may be. It's uncivilized and unrepresentative of the people on this island and something that goes against everything we struggled for in this country.

I also think it makes more practical sense for people down south to keep things as they are. Taking on NI would be a massive economic undertaking. I think it also helps us stay somewhat connected to Britain in positive ways, keeping doors open.

Naw, you're just a clown.

Blame the source when it doesn't say what you want.

Why don't you just accept what the other poster said when they said that the republic has higher life expectancy ?

Why argue it ?

Are you one of these gobshites who wants to put down the country at every turn or are you just stupid?

I want it but it will need E.U support in terms of a bucket of money to prime the economy of north and border area and some sort of SFADCO type deal.

The big countries might support it as a vanity project to prove the merits of the European project and they might enjoy some schadenfreude from United Kingdom of GB and N.I. being no more. The rabid republicans who engage in provocation of the Unionists would have to be muzzled. Perception of southerners has improved greatly over the last 35 years and triumphalism by empty vessels would work against reunification before, during and after reunification day. I don't see any current leader of an Irish political party being the person to get this over the line as they are all political beasts. Some sort of Mandela character is needed.

Constitution which agreed on for a new 32 county state is also needed so that 6 don't feel like they have been subsumed.

We can't afford the North, we can't afford the counties we have. Also a lot of them are penny pinchers that's worse again

You are probably right, why is the ROI always 20 or 30 years behind the rest of the world

Do you disagree, am I mistaken in my opinion?

Don't mind Handshank redemption, he's a knowall, know nothing poor soul.

Compared to thirty years ago, things are absolutely fantastic, with a relatively peaceful Northern Ireland, and a functioning NI executive (of sorts). No bombs and no rubber bullets on the six o'clock news, no bloody massacres, no official statements from men in balaclavas, no army patroling the streets either, and no petrol bombs!

Peach has broken out over the last thirty + years and it's a great thing to witness, with the two jurisdictions rubbing along in harmony (not perfect), but harmonious none the less.

Constitutionally Northern Ireland remains a region within the United Kingdom and we respect their right to remain so. Without pressure, and without threats, the ROI respects their right to exist as part of the UK.

By many accounts the NI demographics are shifting from what went before, British or Irish is not so, the shifting sands have taken the sting out of the fight, with the Northern Irish identity now becoming a thing too in it's own right. All this with the backdrop of peace 🕊️

Of course Sinn Fein keep pushing for a border poll, always pushing to change the status quo into what they demand, always pushing to artificially change the dynamic, before it happens organically (in ten or twenty years time) ?

If Scotland breaks away from the UK, things may even take another direction altogether. The irony being, many Scots wanting to install a more defined border on the island of Gt Britain, to mark out distinctly the division between the two parts of ithe island, to seperate the two cultures, while the opposite is true on this island, where many want to erase the border altogether, so to have one unit, one nation, one culture ?

Great that the Troubles are over anyway.