Should Northern Ireland become an independent pariah state?

Iran is not a pariah state anymore. It is going into transition from that status it (supposedly) had (in the view of Bush and the like) to a more normalised one. The very educated and experienced moderate Hassan Rouhani will be a very different type of Iranian president to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (whose poor grasp of and inexperience with international relationships) played into the hands of Iran's detractors.

Northern Ireland lead by dissident republicans would become like what is described above. However, Ireland and the UK are not going to allow that happen and most people in NI don't want that. Maybe as far as these get is another so-called Free Derry estate.

But seriously if Ireland did break up like Yugoslavia? You could have:

The Socialist Builder's Republic of Eastern Ireland (Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow, Kildare) lead Mick Wallace.
The People's Republic of Cork (Micheal Martin).
The Kingdom of Kerry (lead by the royal family that is the Healy-Rae dynasty).
The Republic of Donegal (lead by Pierce Doherty)
The Nationalist Worker's Republic of Southern Ireland (lead by Mattie McGrath and comprising of Tipperary, Waterford, Limerick, Clare and Kilkenny).
The Republic of Moyross (Moyross estate) lead by the McCarthy Dundons (left out of the above because they don't want it).
The Empire of Royal Northwest Ireland (Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Cavan) lead by the Ming Dynasty!
The United Catholic and Anglican Republic of Northern Ireland lead by Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley Jr. The current 6 counties of NI.
The Independent State of Templebar (because no one wants it!).
The Republic of Ireland (the remaining areas not mentioned).

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

None of these counties are either north or east!

Corrected that. Northwest.