A united Ireland won’t happen right away – but it’s getting closer Fintan O’Toole
May 13, 2022
3 minutes
Illustration Dom Mckenzie
In 2021, a hundred years after the creation of Northern Ireland, Boris Johnson tweeted: “Let me underline that, now & in the future, Northern Ireland’s place in the UK will be protected and strengthened.” Since the word “not” has to be inserted automatically into every positive statement Johnson makes, unionists ought to have taken this as fair warning: Year 101 of Northern Ireland’s existence would be its equivalent of George Orwell’s Room 101, where you are confronted by your own worst nightmares.
After last week’s assembly elections, the unionist nightmare takes the form
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