Courting tactics

I PRESUME the drive for a united Ireland announced at Sinn Féin’s recent árd fheis means ‘by consent’ this time around.

If so, I wonder if Gerry, Martin, et al, realise that the dynamics of achieving consensual unity are much the same as for consensual sex.

If the other party says ‘no’ and you continue to bang on about it, the other party gets progressively more irritated, annoyed and angry.

In fact, the more you bang on about it, the more certainty there is that you’ll never get it.

I wonder if Sinn Féin, in wooing unionists, has the ability to transmute from a stalking Jack the Ripper into an alluring Cathleen Ní Houlihán

Dick Keane

Silchester Park,

Glenageary

Co Dublin.