GDP at purchasing power parity per capita in dollars is: Ireland $127,750 United Kingdom $62,574 But the GDP figures for Ireland are distorted because it has a relatively small population and is a re… (View Post)

A good case could be made that the DUP will do more to advance the cause of Irish Unity than Sinn Fein. (View Post)

There were always lots of kings in Ireland. Certainly more than five. But there were often High Kings, who claimed overlordship of the whole island. Certainly the concept of a single Ireland was bett… (View Post)

Leo Varadkar tried, very gently, to start a conversation about compromises the Republic might make to mollify soft Unionists in the north - on the National Anthem, or the flag, to pick a couple of mi… (View Post)

At the moment local politicians organise buses to take patients waiting for cataract surgery from Munster to Belfast. I'd suggest that one potential trigger for Irish Unity will be when patients… (View Post)