How long until Ireland is united?

The paramilitaries from both sides have far to much money to lose, nothing is going to change. The DUP and Tories are 100% at fault after the DUP was needed to prop up that stooge before blunder***k too the healm.
 
EdwardTeach said:
I think it will happen within 30yrs.

Demographically NI is gradually shifting catholic.

I expect the wealth divide between NI and Ireland to become increasingly obvious, and people will vote with their wallets.

Ireland is a much less scary place for the ulster Scots than it was 10 or twenty years ago. There was a great fear of living in a very Catholic county, but Ireland has changed so much that the influence of Catholicism has dropped off a cliff.

I think it will be a bit like rest and west Germany. They were even more ideologically opposed, but settled into a unified county really swiftly.
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the RC church still has a massive say in health care and schools, and the civil services. until we see a complete separation of church and state, a lot of people in NI will not trust the RoI government
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Really? So the DUP haven't spent years fighting to stop women being able to get an abortion? They still wouldn't be able to if Westminster hadn't stepped in. Even Ireland legalised abortion in 2018.
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Not once in the Bible does it talk about abortion, it is not a religious issue. In Biblical times they didn't view it as life until it was born and breathing, abortion is very much a modern construct.
 
EdwardTeach said:
I think it will happen within 30yrs.

Demographically NI is gradually shifting catholic.

I expect the wealth divide between NI and Ireland to become increasingly obvious, and people will vote with their wallets.

Ireland is a much less scary place for the ulster Scots than it was 10 or twenty years ago. There was a great fear of living in a very Catholic county, but Ireland has changed so much that the influence of Catholicism has dropped off a cliff.

I think it will be a bit like rest and west Germany. They were even more ideologically opposed, but settled into a unified county really swiftly.
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The Catholic population was at the last censes I think 44%. The problem with thinking all Catholics are pro unity is that all most immigrates from the EU are for the most part catholic and there is no telling how they would vote if at all. Then there are those catholic families that have suffered due to the action's of violent republicanism. Be interesting to see the results of this years censes.
 
Btone said:
the RC church still has a massive say in health care and schools, and the civil services. until we see a complete separation of church and state, a lot of people in NI will not trust the RoI government
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Trust them how exactly.

Average age of priests in Ireland in 70. They'll soon be all gone. Only 43.6 per cent of Irish marriages were catholic in 2019, 35.8% in 2020.
Catholic influence now is legacy stuff sitting on boards, and that will be gone soon enough as they are all selling off their property.

There are non denominational schools if you want to go to them.
There's been massive immigration into Ireland over the last 15yrs or so.as a result, a lot of schools have positive discrimination for other cultures.
If you were an Eskimo, with the Jedi religion you'd probably preference in some catholic schools.
 
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