Sinn Féin’s call for border poll in 2030 'never realistic', Taoiseach says

Taoiseach Micheál Martin speaking at a PSNI graduation ceremony at the PSNI Training College in Belfast today. Photo: Liam McBurney/Press Association

Calls for a border poll by 2030 were never realistic and were more an attempt to shore up Sinn Féin’s party support than to unite Ireland, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has claimed.

“It was never realistic, and there was no proper engagement with people, it was just an ‘our way or the highway’ approach, and it seems to me that’s the Sinn Féin approach,” Mr Martin said.