SO WHO wants a united Ireland and what kind of united Ireland do they want?
The question is at the forefront of the thinking of many political parties North and South now.
The Irish Republic is vulnerable to the sudden shock of finding its territory expanded because the timing of a referendum on unity is not in its own hands. In the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 the country agreed to the timing of that referendum being decided by a British minister.
It’s too late now to say they should have thought that one through a bit more.
Irish nationalists have identified themselves by an aspiration rather than an immediate demand for unification.
There is increasing danger that a British minister will call a referendum...
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