As an outsider, I had a tough time getting through the article, but what's interesting to me is how modernization and the decline of Catholicism in the Republic

As an outsider, I had a tough time getting through the article, but what's interesting to me is how modernization and the decline of Catholicism in the Republic seems to be dovetailing with the (especially acute) fiasco of Brexit in the North. Will this be the tipping point toward Irish reunification?