Séamas O'Reilly: The push factors toward a United Ireland

"With the news that Australia’s ruling Labour party passed a motion supporting a United Ireland, it strikes me that their government is being more direct than our own, which is odd since the prospect of reunification has never seemed more likely..."

Frank Gibney's United Ireland vision

I came across a striking image this week. Shared by Dr Patrick Bresnihan, it depicted urban planner Frank Gibney’s 1942 vision for a United Ireland. 

It hums with confident futurism, redrawing the map of Ireland as a decentralised utopia.