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Brexit has put Irish unity debate on the horizon
Former Irish president Mary McAleese has said that the debate on Irish unity is “on the horizon” as a result of Brexit.
Speaking at the Dublin City University (DCU) Brexit Institute Conference, Mrs McAleese said that the public has a duty to ensure the “groundwork is laid” ahead of any Irish unity referendum.
Mrs McAleese, who is a professor of children, law and religion at the University of Glasgow, said the debate is part of the Good Friday Agreement.
“It’s out there, the when of it we do not know but nonetheless, it’s on the horizon, ahead of us,” she said.
The 1998 Belfast Agreement states that the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland may call such a referendum if at any time it appears likely that the majority of voters in Northern Ireland would wish to leave the United Kingdom and enter into a united Ireland.
Professor McAleese claimed that Irish unity has focused on crude numbers of Catholics and nationalists “over and against” Protestants and unionists.
“And it has focused on the coming demographic changes which will in a relatively short time, give Northern Catholics a voting majority,” she added.
“We have instead now this opportunity to develop a wholly fresh focus on the future, making it a place of transcendence, where multiple identities can be respected, be accommodated, can grow to become one community, gathered around the principles of the Good Friday Agreement and the European Union.
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