Ireland will realise a true statesmen one day.
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness at the helm-arise and be a nation again!!
2007-03-09 21:50:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It is wonderful but I hope they don't mess up N. Ireland. It's so lovely, bullett holes and all, just as it is. God Bless
2007-03-09 21:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by moonrose777 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If ever there will be a united Ireland the credit should go at least half to John Hume.
But my own prognosis is not so good. Most people in the Republic would start counting the cost of unity as soon as htere were a real possibility of it, and many politicians like McDowell would do anything to sabotage it.
Not even all the Nationalists in the 6 counties are really in favour of unity, and looking at the corruption and disgusting disregard for the less well off, who can blame them?
I agree though that Adams and McGuiness have so far behaved like people who have the good of the whole country in mind, and I for one would not mind seeing Sinn Fein in gouvernment in the Republic as well as in Northern Ireland.
2007-03-09 22:17:19 · answer #2 · answered by haggesitze 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sinn Fein is very popular in NI, but I think the majority of people there are wary of unification, and prefer to be part of the UK.
There is historical wariness, even fear, of the south. Perhaps not justified today, but will Protestants have the freedom to participate in Orange parades when they are a minority group in a united Ireland? Will a united Ireland modify its abortion laws (and esp. the laws relating to the dissemination of literature)? I mean, it was only fairly recently that Eire forbade pregnant women to travel, until the EU reminded them they are signatories to the Treaty of Maastricht.
I suppose the real root of my question is how Irish reunification even matters when both Eire and NI are already part of the wider EU, and are therefore governed ultimately by EU, and not Irish or British, law? Or perhaps you were not aware that EU law supercedes the national laws of all its members? Did you know that if Irish law contradicts EU law, you appeal it to the EU courts and the Irish decision is quashed and the Irish law is overturned? Ditto UK law?
2007-03-10 00:06:25 · answer #3 · answered by lesroys 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
personalities aside
i should like to see ireland one country
2007-03-09 21:54:21 · answer #4 · answered by q6656303 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You really are a troll aren't you?
2007-03-09 22:24:17 · answer #5 · answered by Jock 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋