7 In 10 People On Island of Ireland Want Border Poll Within Next 5 Years
An Irish Independent/Kantar poll's found 67% of people in the Republic support a united Ireland, compared to 35% in the North
Three-quarters of 25 to 34 year olds in the South would like to see unification, but only a quarter of over 65 year olds are in favour of it.
Fionnan Sheahan of the Irish Independent says unionism is in crisis 100 years after partition of the island:
"100 years on since the creation of what is Northern Ireland, and the six counties, we've never really seen a crisis of identity of the Unionist community as you are seeing right now. You have Brexit and the European Union, but also the Northern Ireland protocol, and the manner in which that has effectively cut off, Northern Ireland, from Britain."
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