New era of friendship

Our President’s highly successful state visit to Britain marks the normalising of relations between us and our neighbours.

Normalising relations between us and our nearest neighbours, the Unionist people, may be a bit more difficult. For over 100 years we have threatened to subsume, subjugate or colonise Unionists in a united Ireland.

If we can summon the courage to declare that a united Ireland is off the agenda until a majority of Unionists request it a new era of friendship between the two tribes who share this island may begin.