Irish unification referendum by 2030, says Sinn Fein leader 

I'm pretty sure that wasn't any agreements.

That’s daft

There has never been a majority in NI to join the Republic. Why would they?

@@aleph8888 better economy, right to choice in abortion, marriage equality, higher paid jobs, freedom of EU movement, better infrastructure, there are quite a few reasons really

​@@aengusryan5948none of that means anything We are Irish once we have a majority we will unity based off nationality its the will of the people not based off of money based off our grandparents who fought for it many died for it No loyalist will ever stop that

I have voted for Sinn Fein since I turned 18 but their just as bad they are causing big trouble for us Natives SINN FÉIN ARE FINISHED 🤬

Ireland is only Ireland by name now, sf are helping to destroy it, they will pay a heavy price in the next election in the south

I'm English and I think that this seems like a very logical and sensible idea in light of recent political changes in the UK.

@@TheIrishKing. i’d put my months wage that this guy has never voted Sinn Fein once and neither is he Irish.

Be a little careful for your wishes ...let's see what is on offer for all persuasions ...I would not like to live in a society driven by possibly marxist based woke agendas.

I was just thinking the same thing. I'm Northern Irish and not a SF follower, but I have to admit, she spoke well here. Very diplomatic.

I love Ireland. Nth and Sth. Brilliant people and country. May Ireland Sth and Nth be united either way of an outcome of a referendum.

Mary Lou and Michelle are heads and shoulders above any of the politicians on either of these islands.

Spot on I like her too

Yup , she's like a broken record or like running your nails down a black board

True - But not one Ireland.

@@Theslavedrivers soon will be

@@Theslavedriversthink there’s a lot of dead British soldiers who are testament that it is indeed Ireland.

@@maxpowerii7368 Geographically, yes. Politically, no.

@@Theslavedrivers majority r

Deluded can't see mirage

exactly. those unionists lads could do with some coaching on how not to turn viewers off

@aengusryan5948 I'm English so don't know a lot about what's going on, but her manner was a credit to her.

Poor deluded u

How ignorant ur

😂😂😂😂😂 Good luck selling that to the people in Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan….Stormont….😂😂😂

@@GerryAds Doesn't have to BE Stormont, but a Federal Republic WOULD require some type of Provincial Administration. The point being that Ulster would remain Ulster, 9 Counties instead of the 6 that Unionists proclaim to BE Ulster. Whatever the future holds for Ireland and for Northern Ireland, ANY prospect of unification will mean the expansion of one at the expense/demise of the other. A Federal Republic will allow for the histories of both to be respected, and where necessary preserved.

A change to the government would have to occur regardless though I don't see the fear of "dictatorial pretensions" here? The Irish model is already a lot more resiliant to that than say the UK is for comparison.

Interesting 👍

@@GWalsh-on5xjIn what way is it more resilient.

A proper Celtic Tiger - Wales, Scotland & Ireland. Sounds good to me.

😂

Wales needs to join something as it can't support itself.

@@jjefferyworboys8138 yes and a united Wales Ireland and Scot would be great. With England as the poor cousin.

Communist Ireland on the way 🎉😂

Democracy is the right to change your mind.

@@ClannCholmain democracy is """not""" terrorism

Well put it this way, unless the DUP stay in stormont and prove to us that N.I works within the UK it will be the outcome she wants.. we can't keep living like this, our services are totally shot.

@@yammychops has never been to the island of Ireland and still supports Suella Braverman. Enough said.

Given that the six counties are a gerrymandered state that was not ever supposed to have a nationalist leader....but it has.😂

​@@RyanTandy-dp1bhthey should unite because people like myself who are from there want to unite. We are the majority. It's selfish and evil to want a unionist state dominated by unionist people. A very sectarian state. We have already seen how that played out. Those days are over. Its time to move on. Unionists are no longer the majority and they never will be again. United Ireland is coming either get with it or feel free to go back to your homeland. The North of Ireland is not the unionists ancestral land. The plantation is finished. United Ireland 🇮🇪

@@RyanTandy-dp1bh says who? Certainly not a growing number of people in Northern Ireland.

​@@joekavanagh7171who the planters😂😂😂 F*ck yourself with your orange strap on

@@RyanTandy-dp1bh Selfish and evil?? Give me a break

United under the british government.

But why? I’m just curious

They would. Despite the majority of Irish thinking that the north would be a financial liability, our idealism lives on.

@@EpicAelflaedthat’s why

​@@EpicAelflaedbecause he is probably a lefty especially with irish parents who probably brainwashed him with story's of old eire struggle, load of crap northern ireland is british

Why would your English dad want to fight his own people? Let me guess - is he a socialist?

What was his name?

If all the mass immigration continues there won't be an Irishmen left.

@@daryllportas8453numpty.

Said no English person ever.

Not for long

Ireland not part of British isles

Weird isn't it. In truth, Varadkar is 50/50 Irish Indian unlike prine miniature Sunak who is 100% Indian. The clear winner here is India's PM Modi. India is offering Britain a trade deal based on a significant work visa arrangement. Sunak will rubber stamp that. So Britain's future is guaranteed to prosper with the arrival of several hundred thousand more persons "with skills" to England from India. Lucky England.

Yes it is. It's a geographical term, not political.

@anthonyferris8912 it's a British geographical term, it's not recognised by the Irish government.

The Irish from the South of Ireland have been able to work in the UK without restrictions for over a hundred years. Having one foot in the UK and one foot in the EU is a advantage that the Irish would lose. Recessions come and go and the UK has been a lifeline for many Irish workers, especially construction workers. I'm a construction worker and have worked with many Irish construction workers in the UK and we've been good friends. All I'm saying is look at the advantages and disadvantages of a complete break with the UK.

I have lived in the North all my life, cannot recall a Dublin Government making a reunification plan....

The freedom of movement of people between Ireland and UK is older than the EU. There is no reason to believe this would disappear with unification. There are 350,000 British citizens living and working in Ireland, it's not like the old days where the Irish went over to the UK for work. Now it works both ways. @@SB-dg8hq

It's only for the people in the North.

​@biddyearly9262 all Ireland has to vote and needs a majority in both jurisdictions to pass. The south without the north or vice versa wont be enough for reunification

Precisely. She will be loyal to Klaus.

and they would lose like In Scotland, a quarter of NI catholics wish to stay in the Union, and Catholics no longer hold the demographic gain they once did

@@davidrenton It's the whole of Ireland will be voting on this issue, so it's all to be decided on.

@@xrayfish2020 well no it would be NI only, that's like having a Brexit vote where France also votes on it. Ireland can have a vote it has no relevance within the UK. The only vote that would carry any weight would be for NI citizens. Why would Irish citizens get to determine over another soverign state Dublin has no authority over NI Should the English have a vote to make Ireland part of the UK, which they would win. Maybe the English get a vote on a Scots Indyref2 Btw im half irish catholic , british

@@davidrenton What he means I think is that both north and south would have to vote yes. If the north votes yes but the south votes no it wont happen and vice versa.

@@Militaria-pr9rj yes ultimately both would have to agree in seperate votes

It's anti-democratic!

Anti-democratic!

It goes against the democratic process!

Scotland had the referendum it asked for and voted no. If one was granted every time some incompetent nationalist asked for it then there would be one every ten minutes

Thankfully it's not up to Westminster

..in every packet

Except it belongs to the EU....and the Ukrainians, Romanians, Lithuanians, Albanians, etc etc etc

Immigrants have more rights in Ireland than the Irish do.

Ireland is no more 😂😂😂😂😂 immigrants run it now god bless them

Free them from what ?

It works in rugby because very few play it,its the most overhyped sport in ireland

A rugby team is not at all like governance. Northern Irish people do no want the southern irish health system, or to have our economy slashed from the evaporation of support from Westminster.

Hate "Irelands Call". Amhran Na Bhfiann is Irelands national anthem.

As can, Golf, Cricket, Tiddlywinks. Now go back to sleep 😴

😂

Polls don't indicate that at all

History.....protestants in the North East threatened to create civil war if the democratic vote of Ireland be respected was that vote in 1920 or 21 i will have to google to leave G B but G B capitulated and partitioned they would not could not do that in 2024 it was the demise of Unionism

Well said Re unification of what an Ireland full of asylum seekers is that what James Connolly and Co. died !!!

Blame successive governments for the lack of housing, not migrants. As for invasion, I haven't heard of any foreign tanks landing on Dollymount beach lately.

@@joekavanagh7171 So thousands of fit healthy immigrants is not an invasion on the Island of Ireland infact all of Europe !!! The Elite have a plan right across Europe and do not care about the natives ...

Ireland was a nation of asylum seekers for many years, this rubbish about an invasion is racist. There has been poor housing policy for years and a certain segment of society seems to think they’re entitled to a house handout, maybe get up and earn it, it’s hard for all

@@johns1600 I was in a brand new housing estate a few years ago. It was a namaste ghost estate. It was being finished by the local Council. There was around 30 houses there. Only one house went to an Irish family. The rest went to foreign nationals. It is very easy to call someone a racist. Just because one would disagree with an influx of mass immigration that doesn't mean someone is racist.

God willing

They want a united Ireland. That has always been their goal. It is also the goal of all other Irish political parties, except they don't say it. Fianna Fail calls themselves "The Republican Party".

Exactly a united Ireland is now meaningless, we are all under the jackboot of the WEF we are mere observers to the social engineering.

Very true. They are destroying the nation state and turning us all into a serf class of the global elite

Lol put the tinfoil away lads

Your proof of this is?

100% correct nuancedbro...

Because some of us in Northern Ireland see the politics of Ireland and want nothing of their socialist ideals!

Oh yes it can! There are are just shy of a million protestants in Northern Ireland most of whom are ardent unionists and will not under any circumstances willingly join a united Ireland. If a catholic majority in NI leads to a vote for unification this will not change their views. Irish unification would lead to a blood bath and Ireland's one rifle and a pitchfork army would be hopelessly out of its depth. The fact that it could well be Sinn Fein at the helm does not exactly help.

@@ianmcdonald3053 eh??? Ireland is many things, but it certainly isn't socialist. Look at the massive social divisions and the state of their health service.

That depends entirely on the will of the people of Northern Ireland which, thus far, has been to remain part of the UK.

There is over 1 million people that would happily create a civil war if ever it happened. It would be extremely dangerous i think.

What ?

Cameron managed to annoy the public so much he literally lost the referendum and then ditched it rather than complete that result. In her case that is the worst case scenario, but one she needs to understand not to repeat.

Cause Cameron wasn't pro-Brexit, hence why he had such a piss-poor performance at the time.@@Darkwintre

Not anymore its not.

Umm, it's whoever the people vote for!

They are ruining Ireland by brining in thousands of males of fighting age who are unvetted and have no wish to integrate into Irish culture. Housing crisis and medical crisis yet they facilitate these illegal migrants .....

No it's Brussels Country in every way, the Irish are now last in the queue, but not for long, the fight has begun

Northern Ireland is British, not Irish. 🤡

Because we would be swapping one bunch of treasonous rats for an other in the eu which I voted to leave

well its weather northen island people wants to leave behind all of what the UK has to offer though. Plus the IRA wasnt helping for a long time

As a Northern Irish person I say hell no. The already struggling health service and economy would be devastated. Ireland can't sustain the amount of money and investment we currently get from Westminster.

@StormEagle5 As an English person l think Westminister needs to be chipping in more money to Northern lreland to make it prosper.

​​@@colinsmith1288Northern Ireland receives more public money per capita than England (18% more) or Wales (4% more) and roughly the same as Scotland. We surely don't want to widen the gap even further. The most deprived areas in terms of funding are all of the English regions except London which has money thrown at it. That's why there was this empty talk of "levelling up", seldom heard now.

Always been one track pony.so greedy with dominating their 26 they can't leave NI x 6 without boot on its neck trying to wrangle shame for being similar yet not the same.

@@Irregular_Guerrilla 🤦

@@Frank.112he’s right. Hardline unionists shut down the NI government for 2 years to avoid a Sinn Fein First Minister.

​@@maxpowerii7368and when Martin McGuiness was alive the executive was also shut down. All as bad as each other

@@Blondie-ic3wo bs

Because she's not a racist?

Inside the next decade is 2030 onwards, the 20's is this decade 😂

feel free to leave then

​@@stevenmcgee5683W⚓️

Ireland is no more run by immigrants.

Call it the new Palestine.

EUnited EUtopia

Costs the UK £15 billion per year to subsidise equivalent to £230 per person per year. The equivalent to ROI would be €3000 per person per year so no absolutely not.

Ireland is one of the richest countries in the world!

@@_Phoenix3 Northern Ireland costs £15 billion per year to subsidise thats £230 per person per year in the UK equivalent to €3000 per person per year in Ireland

@@danielbentham758 €160 billion passes through the state untaxed from businesses every year. It is absolutely possible.

Can't afford all the ambulances fire engines gritters police cars which all drive back to GB day one, NI tax payers haven't paid a tenth of the cost of all that GB owns it

Ireland has been sold out by these parties. Inverted mass migration making it unrecognizable

​@@mindfuleats4517 Says a Brit that's never ever been here

I hope that muslims take over England

@@Protestant16907 they wont

😂 Okay racist.

​@@ClannCholmain He is speaking the truth, open your ears.

@@user-og2bm6hl4l yes it’s true, he’s a racist.

How many Nigerian TDs are in the Dail?

@@ClannCholmain The Provisional IRA murdered thousands of white Britons to, in the misguided words of Paul MacCartney, give Ireland back to the Irish. Now they want to give it to...so what was the point of spilling all that blood on both sides?

There's no way NI would get special treatment, indeed why should it? If it were to be federalised it'd be shaped fitting the older Province model. Really the unionists would just have to get with the times and stop throwing a strop when they don't get what they want.

Why.?

Partition was to prevent all out civil war. All out civil war didn't happen. So it was a success not a disaster.

@@amysands8925 Not sure, maybe something to do with the almost 4000 people killed & 47000 injured. I'd say that's fairly disastrous.

Agreed. Ireland should be reintegrated within the UK.

@@hunter98764 our population still hasn’t recovered since British rule. so no thanks !!

Their might be benefits for a reconstituted Unionist party. They might well hold the balance of power quite often for the good of NI, They would have arguing rights over a much larger budget , rather than relying on Barnet. and on National economic plans. Many in the South would agree on non wokery! There could be cuLtural benefits ....but all of this must be enunciated and I have not heard it yet from SF.

Once upon a time about a century ago, Belfast was bigger than Dublin, and industrial Northern Ireland was much wealthier than the poor agricultural South. Today the roles are reversed. Northern Ireland remains to a considerable extent dependant on handouts from London and is much poorer than prosperous Ireland. Dublin is now three times the size of Belfast and looks (unlike Belfast) like a thriving European city. Union with Britain doesn’t seem to have worked so well for Northern Island. One reason often cited for the dramatic change is the attraction of the Irish low tax regime for major US multinationals. However the UK itself is often associated with tax haven status (the Channel Islands and British Virgin Islands spring to mind, not to mention the "London Laundromat". In recent years - since 2016 - the considerable divergence in GDP per capita growth (in favour of Ireland) is more likely explained by the Brexit vote of that year, with Ireland now a more favoured route into the EU than the more isolated United Kingdom. David McWilliams, a notable Irish economist, wrote recently: “the truth is the union with Britain has been an economic calamity for Northern Ireland".

And, some would say, for Scotland and the North of England .@@ClannCholmain

They will still ask for your billions for many years . They don’t love Ireland enough to go it alone.

I really like the sound of that.. 9 Billion a Year!… Damn I never knew it cost us that much.. That’s not a bargain at all… Let em have it… Tge mainland could use that 9 Billion much better to fund NHS & Energy subsidies etc… Its a no brainier… Let’s pulls out…

Because Northern Ireland was never a priority despite being among the most productive part of the UK! NI is full of bright, hard working people if only we could get them to drop the sectarian BS - from a proud Irishman . . . “Despite the majority of the productivity drivers on the dashboard being red, NI saw a rapid improvement in its ranking between 2020 and 2021, moving up to 7th place from previously being last of the UK's twelve regions. This was due to the highest productivity growth of any UK region, at 6.7% in real terms.” - Productivity.ac.uk

Yes please!

Plus england is full of plastic paddies

😂 Talking about yourself again.

Agreed there Globalists not Irish patriots, they have zero loyalty to the Irish people only globalist WEF elites.

@@ClannCholmain Spouting rubbish is your speciality , ever thought of reading the lies out on RTE news...

@@yammychops thinks Suella Braverman should be the next prime minister of the United Kingdom.

Tratiors to the Irish People, all of them.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G7eatb8oNGE.html en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_average_wage.

what absolute nonsense

Wrong Bobby boy.@@bobthebuilder6553

Yep. House prices will definitely drop once they're in the middle of a war zone.

I'm sure as the president of shin fein she is fully awear

20 years ago support for the UK to leave the EU was in the single digits. 20 years ago Sinn Fein would have polled low teen numbers in an Irish general election, they are now at almost 30%, point being, things change and can change quickly, your insinuation that the decision to hold an election might be somewhat withheld from the public by a Northern Ireland Secretary is fanciful. It is in fact not in their hands as it's enshrined in the GFA, a legally binding international peace treaty clearly nobody in the UK has read in the last 25 years. Now I understand international obligations are treated with disdain by the British, but they would dishonour this one at their peril. The union is finished, prepare for it, or prepare for failure.

That's 40% of seat share in the assembly. Unionists like to quote that figure to make it seem like nationalism hasn't grown. In the 2022 election, together, the nationalist parties won 50.3% of the first preference votes, which was higher than their combined seat share of 39.3%. This means that some of their votes were transferred to other parties or candidates in the later stages of the single transferable vote system. 41.9% first preference for unionists. Nationalism is growing.

Correct in regard to the terms of the Good Friday Agreement regarding a border poll and Irish reunification..It xhould be noted however that the percentage of those in Northern Ireland identifying as Protestant has declined over two decades ,in cencus 2001 53% in 2021 it was 43% while those identifying as Catholic is 45%..Protestants are on average older than Catholics and the birth rate among Catholics is higher xo the demographic balance will continue to change..The economic interconnectivity between the two jurisdictions ix also growing with 50% of Northern Ireland exports going to the Republic. Ireland is a member of the EU and in the event of reunification funding would come from the EU in assisting the impact of reunification. Irish reunification is a probability but will need to be done with the full cooperation of the Unionist community respecting their culture and history.

@@michaelogrady1002 Catholic and protestant has nothing to do with a border poll be scary if it did. nationalist vote share is the only measurement.

No one will be more loyal to the European Union than this one.

So who then?

The Shinners are betraying the Irish people and support the Plantation of Ireland.

She's not a leader a leader doesn't ignore people

@@krugerfuchsBest of a bad bunch, in my opinion.

No eu who wef dominance

We wont ever agree to it

The DUP are absolute dinosaurs

DUP would never show unity with SF. They shut down the NI Government for 2 years to avoid a SF First Minister.

Sinn Fein are traitors

No it would not be great, there would be a bloodbath

A testament to the fierce and proud nature of Irish women 🇮🇪💚

The Irish government can't stand her and her cronies

​@@keithgreen9009 If what the Irish government thought mattered that might be relevant.

IT wasn't but some TERRORIST COWARDS demanded it and have YET TO PAY the GBP Trillions that the Republic OWES the UK.

McDonald and O'Neill are 2 of the smartest politicians around today.

Meanwhile, down in the South the Catholic Church murdered and abused. And just remind me how many Catholic people the IRA murdered? Nobody is innocent here.

All groomed via self selected aphreid division on purpose called sabotage within

Give over!

@@colincampbell4261 over given

​@@colincampbell4261truth hurts doesn't it princess

The Free Travel Area means Irish Citizens can travel and work in UK without any restrictions already !! And vice versa. It's been there since 1922 - despite the EU !!

@@2msvalkyrie529European Union members have freedom of movement.

No chance.. if they wanna go it alone.. They ain’t welcome here… Damn ingrates…

Mores the Pity…

@@josephbland3904 and what about the minority who don’t want to vote leave?

Bs

She’s an absolute liar.

@tasha I'm an Irish man, staunch nationalists are ashamed of sinn féin, all they want is open borders & to flood Ireland with unvetted migratins. They are called the opposition by have agreed with the ff/FG+green party on EVERYTHING. Meet the new boss..... Same as the old boss.

@@sueyourself5413 Sinn Fein are supposedly a nationalist party however their manifesto supports open borders and they have publicly stated that there should be no cap on immigrants into Ireland. I could go on more about this ex-Fianna Fail member being only in it for power but I haven’t got the time to waste. Reminds me of wee krankie from Scotland.

McDonald and O'Neill are 2 smart cookies

As an Irish man, I would not be voting for a united Ireland in a Referendum either. Time to build that wall.

​@@GerryAdsIrish having the unique ability to work in the UK is because of the existence of Northern Ireland. I would think about that when deciding how to vote.

Not to mention 1 million unionists who hate them with a passion .

Historically free staters wanted nothing to Do with the dirty black north, so nothing new there

They call us Free Staters and then they wonder why we want nothing to do with them 😂😂

Ireland can well afford the north ffs

The largest part of the subvention in 2019, £3.4 billion, was in pension payments paid by the British state to pensioners in Northern Ireland. As these payments are based on contributions paid to the UK exchequer they should continue even after reunification, should it happen. It is possible the UK could renege on it, but it wouldn't look good for them. Other parts of that subvention are to do with the UK's national defence; trident and costs of the war in Afghanistan.

All the sweet talk from these bs merchants doesn't wash. We all know the truth in Ireland.

Thatcher proscribed as ah war criminal

Not a hope in hell of Ireland joining the UK politically.

In relation to your point 1) The referenda required for Northern Ireland to unite with Ireland would be held in Northern Ireland and, separately, in Ireland; both referenda must pass. None of Scotland, England and Wales would vote. This is described in the 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement. In relation to your point 2) Ireland has been an independent country since 1922, and wouldn't vote to join the UK, whether it were a unitary state as it is today, or a federal one.

@@stephenwalker850 Along with Tony Blair et al.

No need for a united Ireland to submit to British rule on things like foreign policy. When Northern Ireland leaves the UK, it can be replaced by Cornwall which is a distinct nation from England and whose identity has been suppressed for centuries

@joe don't be fooled.

Why not join NATO then?

@@T5ZplayerIreland has laws on neutrality and it has no interest in fighting imperialist American wars. More chance of Ireland joining the African Union realistically.

Smugglers Paradise🏝️🏖️🚦⛽️🚦💊🎎

​@maxpowerii7368 It would expect America to come to it's defence though, wouldn't it 🤡

.....Sein Fein has been around for a long time love....they are not going anywhere....

@@pdalaighthere whole existence is based on reunification 😂

What is wrong with her?

Sell out to the land of éiRe.