Big business and the politics of delusion

YOUR business columnist Brian O’Mahony (Irish Examiner, January 8) says if, as an example of cross-border co-operation, IKEA were to go to the North instead of Ballymun, it could be a gesture of goodwill at a delicate time.

This kind of irrelevant waffle shows that some in our country of four million citizens are still suffering from the delusion that granting concessions to unionists will make them see sense and join us in the common cause of a united Ireland.

As one of Ireland’s younger generation, and therefore not imbued with a sense of national importance on this subject, let me tell Mr O’Mahony it is time that he and others of his ilk copped onto themselves. There will not be a united Ireland, ever.