Imagine if we were still in the UK

BRIAN McCAFFREY (Irish Examiner letters, May 17) speculates that Home Rule “might have been as good — if not better — than what ensued from 1916”.

Let’s try to imagine what kind of Ireland might have ensued. It would be still tied at the hip to the UK. It would have been bombed during World War II and possibly invaded (as it almost was by the Allies themselves).

It would be directly involved in an illegal and immoral war in both Iraq and Afghanistan, just as the UK government is against the wishes of the majority of its people.