Support growing for all-Ireland unity, says Adams

Republicans are happy to listen to Unionist arguments about why Northern Ireland should remain in the United Kingdom, but believe that support for Irish unity is growing every day, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams claimed tonight.

Mr Adams, speaking from Philadelphia during a St Patrick’s week tour of the US, welcomed Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble’s call for a referendum next May on Northern Ireland’s constitutional future.