How Ireland came to be states apart

RYLE DWYER (Irish Examiner, June 18) says we have to “admit that the unionists who opposed Home Rule on the grounds it would mean Rome rule were vindicated during the 20th century.”

But is it not equally possible to say that if unionists had accepted Home Rule, there would have been at least two million extra Protestants in the state with far greater representation in a Dublin parliament?

Thus the state of affairs which Mr Dwyer rightly points out as being against the spirit of republicanism, where the Catholic Church dominated political life, might never have come to pass.