It makes sense for Ireland to have a single economic unit accountable to its people
Opinion: Unity is not inevitable, but will require work, dialogue and compromise
The removal of a permanent vehicle barrier from the Border between Strabane, Co Tyrone and Lifford, Co Donegal in 1998. But could the Border disappear completely?
Thirty-eight years ago Seamus Heaney wrote the poem Whatever You Say, Say Nothing. It described “The famous Northern reticence, the tight gag of place”. By the end of the poem all that this reticence had delivered was “the new camp for the internees: A bomb had left a crater of fresh clay”.
Central to the Northern Ireland peace process has been dialogue, which is the indispensable precursor to agreement.