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Irish unification would be a silver lining to this awfulness.

anonymousDan 10y ago
As someone from Ireland I'm really not sure I could be bothered dealing with all the shit that could entail. Would prefer if they just went independent and joined the EU as a separate country.
- matthewmacleod 10y ago
  Unfortunately Northern Ireland doesn't have the economy or infrastructure to realistically function as an independent state at this point. You never know about the future, but it's likely not on the table any time soon.
  - lostlogin 10y ago
    Which is ironic given how long foreign rule has had to sort the place out.
    - hardlianotion 10y ago
      Not really. Northern Ireland is quite small.
  - Grishnakh 10y ago
    Why does it need to be large to function independently? There are a bunch of far smaller nations in the EU/Europe: Luxembourg, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, etc. If Northern Ireland became independent, it could just join the EU (regular Ireland is also an EU member), so they wouldn't have to maintain their own currency at least, and would benefit from the free trade. If Luxembourg can function as it is, I don't see why Northern Ireland can't do the same.
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- de_Selby 10y ago
  It would also represent an economic hit for the Republic of Ireland.
  - fnord123 10y ago
    This may be offset by the fact that Ireland will be the English speaking country in the EU in which multinational corporations can maintain a base of operations.
- tonyedgecombe 10y ago
  It would be rather ironic if after all the troubles the North said they wanted to reunify and the South said fuck off.
  - jacquesm 10y ago
    Something similar happened in Belgium a while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Belgium It's still pretty much an unresolved situation at the present, in the longer term it could go either way.
reitoei 10y ago
A lot of people from both sides of the border don't want unification.

As someone from Ireland I'm really not sure I could be bothered dealing with all the shit that could entail. Would prefer if they just went independent and joined the EU as a separate country.

matthewmacleod 10y ago
Unfortunately Northern Ireland doesn't have the economy or infrastructure to realistically function as an independent state at this point. You never know about the future, but it's likely not on the table any time soon.
- lostlogin 10y ago
  Which is ironic given how long foreign rule has had to sort the place out.
  - hardlianotion 10y ago
    Not really. Northern Ireland is quite small.
- Grishnakh 10y ago
  Why does it need to be large to function independently? There are a bunch of far smaller nations in the EU/Europe: Luxembourg, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, etc. If Northern Ireland became independent, it could just join the EU (regular Ireland is also an EU member), so they wouldn't have to maintain their own currency at least, and would benefit from the free trade. If Luxembourg can function as it is, I don't see why Northern Ireland can't do the same.
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de_Selby 10y ago
It would also represent an economic hit for the Republic of Ireland.
- fnord123 10y ago
  This may be offset by the fact that Ireland will be the English speaking country in the EU in which multinational corporations can maintain a base of operations.
tonyedgecombe 10y ago
It would be rather ironic if after all the troubles the North said they wanted to reunify and the South said fuck off.
- jacquesm 10y ago
  Something similar happened in Belgium a while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Belgium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Belgium It's still pretty much an unresolved situation at the present, in the longer term it could go either way.

reitoei 10y ago

A lot of people from both sides of the border don't want unification.