The British Secretary of State is required to hold a referendum to rejoin the South if he/she believes that it will pass.
Don't get me wrong, it's bad but its 1000x better in the last 20-30 years.
From politico: Overall, the results showed 65 percent "yes" versus 19 percent "no." Excluding undecided voters and those who refused to answer — 15 percent — nearly four in five respondents who had made up their minds said they would vote in favor. https://www.politico.eu/article/election-two-thirds-of-irish...
I actually have always agreed with your outlier opinion, but you need both countries to be in the EU to make it work (shrug).
You are not counting the appropriate people in your study. A pretty large majority of people in the Republic would like to see the North become part of their country.
However, our opinion is less important than the opinions of the people living in Northern Ireland, and in that part of the island, there is not a strong majority for re-unification.
Like my original point is what the Good Friday/Belfast agreement states, so I'm not sure why you're disagreeing with me.
There is one school of thought (which the GFA falls under) which is what’s happened in the past is legitimate and we have to work from where we are and there is another which is that the colonial past is illegitimate and therefore any gains are also illegitimate and most be returned to their rightful owner.
I don’t subscribe to either necessarily but seeing as continuing prevailing attitudes among the colonial elite haven’t changed one bit I think we have no choice but to confront them gloves off style. It’s literally stealing our collective global future.
Your argument appears to be that this doesn't matter because the land should never have been theirs in the first place.
I 100% reject that argument as it's essentially forcing people to live in a country which they have not chosen.
And on a practical level, this would probably lead to violence from Unionists in the North, which I don't think anyone wants.