Is Now The Time For A United Ireland?
Thoughts on the re-unification of North and South
Watching the recent 2019 Oxford Union debate on whether or not Ireland was ready for reunification, I laughed. One of the speakers, Richard Humphreys, said (in 2019) with the whole of Brexit happening, things were just too complicated to discuss a reunification. Well, what about now, Richard! When Brexit is probably only the third-biggest disaster happening at the moment! With the Coronavirus taking first and the ensuing economic collapse on the silver medal, surely we would be mad to continue on such a conversation? Yet, there are genuine signs that a united Ireland could be the best strategy out of this debacle and for the future of the island of Ireland.
The nationalist aspiration of a unified Ireland, which I always would have known, is no longer the best argument for reunifying the North and South. I don’t ever believe in arguing for the sake of things. I’m not a debater. I support a United Ireland because I genuinely believe the reunification of the North and the South can bene…