Shannon just the first stop on way to new all-Ireland economic order

We tend to think that any move in the direction of greater unity on the island of Ireland will involve pain and surrender by unionists.

In some respects that might be so, but it will only come about if we in the South are prepared also to endure a lot of pain along the way

LAST week, when I was writing about the Shannon debacle, I said there was a bigger picture that had to be considered. The bigger picture I had in mind was the all-island dimension to the decision. That bigger picture has huge implications for all of us, and I want to explain what I mean in a minute.