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Letters to the Editor: Welcome TV debate on United Ireland

Letters to the Editor: Welcome TV debate on United Ireland — Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald.

Thu, 25 Mar, 2021 - 12:22

After 100 years of partition, a debate on unity was hosted on RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live (March 22), which in itself is a small step for those left trapped in a six-county statelet that would serve as an artificially created utopian melting pot for the majority, and a life of penal servitude for the minority.

This talk of uniting the country has come out of the blue for many within Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who have ruled the roost since the Free State was founded in 1922.

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