Re: Northern Ireland Unionist Leader Meets With Prime Minister of Ireland
An important thing to remember about Ireland is that the Irish are a hard headed and strong people. Whether they are Orangemen or Nationalists you cannot make them do something they do not want to do. Even today's Ireland of the EU and Bono is still Ireland. So if people want a United Ireland, and I do, they will either have to ask the Protestants if they would like to join the Republic or they will have to try to kill us all. I am happily a citizen of the Irish Republic and I think my fellow Protestants in the North will some day join me but you will have to ask them to join of their own free will and that will take a lot of negotiations.
My grandmother said "Ireland is a hard country. Always remember that." It is still true underneath it all.
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