If we want true reconciliation with unionists, let’s renounce the idea of a united Ireland

NOW that the IRA’s guns are decommissioned we face the much more difficult task of decommissioning our nationalist mindset.

We see the unionists as usurpers of part of our ancient tribal territory and our most fervent tribal wish is to subsume, subjugate or exterminate these intruders so that we can have our ‘united Ireland’.

While a bit of Brit-bashing has always been part of our nationalism we reserve our deepest racial hatred for our nearest neighbours, the unionists. For some reason we cannot come to terms with the simple fact of life that the tribal demographics on this island changed irrevocably almost 400 years ago with the Plantation of Ulster.