N Ireland voted against Brexit and now remains in the EU single market for goods. This, along with the demographic and general shift toward secularism among youth in the South Stephens describes, will combine to force a gradual eventual drift toward full Irish unity. A revival of Lloyd George's Council of Ireland can only facilitate this long term transition, not function as a fixed, institutional replacement for it.
There is another way forward to a New Ireland, as Collins declared in 1922 "that unionists could never be coerced into a united Ireland. They would have to be persuaded". The same applies to the people in the South. Irelands Future have a program in place to do just that. A New Ireland, fully defined before any referenda, which seeks to persuade the people both North and South that the whole is much better than the sum of the parts. With the help of new American and EU investment, we will end up with a very successful New Ireland
N Ireland voted against Brexit and now remains in the EU single market for goods. This, along with the demographic and general shift toward secularism among youth in the South Stephens describes, will combine to force a gradual eventual drift toward full Irish unity. A revival of Lloyd George's Council of Ireland can only facilitate this long term transition, not function as a fixed, institutional replacement for it.
There is another way forward to a New Ireland, as Collins declared in 1922 "that unionists could never be coerced into a united Ireland. They would have to be persuaded". The same applies to the people in the South. Irelands Future have a program in place to do just that. A New Ireland, fully defined before any referenda, which seeks to persuade the people both North and South that the whole is much better than the sum of the parts. With the help of new American and EU investment, we will end up with a very successful New Ireland
This sounds like a very worthwhile enterprise....
For 2019, the financial subsidies (annual subvention) included:
pension payments (£3.4 billion);
share of the UK's national debt and annual repayments (£2.4 billion); and
share of the UK's defence budget (£1.1 billion).
It seems most unlikely the Republic of Ireland would inherit these liabilities.
Presumably there would have to be a London-Dublin negotiation on assets/liabilities..