North’s Remain vote prompts Irish union call from Sinn Féin

A UK exit from the EU in the context of the North voting to Remain must prompt a poll on Irish unity, Sinn Féin has demanded.

While the republican party claimed the referendum will have "massive ramifications on the nature of the British state", given Scotland also voted Remain, the Democratic Unionists hailed the vote as set to deliver a bright future for the North as part of an unshackled UK.