northern ireland?

Question

why are there many different opinions in northern ireland amoung the people on how they should be goverened?

Answer 1

you either have home rule, or rule from London (or theoretically Dublin, but that is off the table. Or Brussels, but no one is touching that one).

If you have home rule, you can have majority home rule of Protestants, some of whom have a history of bigtry against Catholics based on the events of 317 years ago. If so, the Catholic minority is going to object (violently or peacefully).

If you have a coalition government which relies on majority and minority support, it is harder to get things done, but things that do get done will have a wide range of support. But some Protestant bigots may complain, peacefully or violently.

If you have rule from London, you may have people of both sides who are happy that the others are not getting their say; but you will also have peoiple on both sides who are dissatisfied.

If you have rule from Dublin (something Dublin officially gave up claims to in the 1990s), the Protestants are going to be very unhappy, and will be violently opposed to.

Thus the best solution seems to be a coalition government guaranteeing minority rights, which has been the path of recent times.