Unionists won’t be moved by ‘majority’

KIERAN McCARTHY (Letters, June 4), apart from invoking the Good Friday Agreement, avoids my substantive points regarding unionists’ right to self-determination.

Instead he attributes opinions to me that I don’t have and then argues against them.

Notwithstanding the Good Friday Agreement, the notion that you could frog-march more than one million unionists into a united Ireland on the basis of a simple majority, possibly without the consent of a single unionist, is totally absurd and a recipe for disaster.

Back in 1912 the depth of unionist opposition to Dublin rule took everybody by surprise. The nationalist and British establishment assumed unionist opposition would crumble once parliament had spoken. They were very wrong.

The amazing thing is that, 100 years later, Cllr McCarthy and his fellow-travellers seem to have learned nothing.

Dick Keane

Silchester Park

Glenageary

Co Dublin