Replying To tireoghainabu: "We either live in a democracy or we don't, if a border poll is passed re- unification will happen. The influence of loyalists is confined to a few hardline areas in Belfast where they run the drug business and most local people want them off their backs. Brexit was a watershed moment with an Irish Sea border imposed against their will and barely a whimper out of the hardliners. The days of threatening violence as Lloyd George did to Michael Collins in 1922 will not work this time"
Well those of you who live in the North would of course know better than us looking in from the outside. And I sincerely hope you are right. It would be fantastic to see a united and peaceful Ireland in our lifetimes. The vast majority of people just want to get by, and live their lives as healthily and prosperously as they can after all.
If there was any loyalist violence in the event of a united Ireland what would be their aim other than to cause murder and mayhem and disrupt the country? They would hardly be fighting so that they could somehow force the six counties join the UK? The cause of Irish freedom going back from the time of the United Irishmen, the Ribbon men, the Fenians, IRB, IRA, all through the centuries had a just cause to free Ireland from occupation by a colonial power; I don't see what cause the loyalists could have for an armed campaign after a united Ireland, if they can't stomach living in a united Ireland they are more than welcome to go and live in Britain as Arlene Foster said she would when a united Ireland comes into being. I can see a border poll being called withing the next 10 years, Brexit has advanced the prospect a lot imo.