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Queen Elizabeth II meets Irish President Michael D. Higgins during a visit to the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
Image: Paul Faith/PA Archive/Press Association Images
Queen Elizabeth II meets Irish President Michael D. Higgins during a visit to the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.
Image: Paul Faith/PA Archive/Press Association Images
SINN FÉIN FINANCE Spokesperson Pearse Doherty tells TheJournal.ie today that he believes a united Ireland would mean a better economy.
He says that the Irish government needs to support the demand for a border poll to be held in coming years to open a proper debate on the drawbacks and benefits of uniting the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
According to Doherty, the economic arguments on uniting Ireland are full of misinformation – he claims that the Irish State would not automatically have to replace the €10 billion subvention that the Northern executive gets from central government in London.
However, a recent poll showed that nearly four-fifths of Northern Irish voters would choose to stay in the UK, while a 2011 poll showed that 73 per cent of respondents wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of a single state with Britain.
Today we ask, regardless of your background or location: Would you welcome a united Ireland?
Poll Results:
Yes (8456)
No (6197)
I don't know (2781)
Read: Nearly four-fifths of NI voters would choose to stay in UK>
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