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So is Northern Ireland going to get really desperate really fast and play the "Celtic Unity" card on Scotland to try and ride with the Scots to independence?

by rifek on Fri Jun 24th, 2016 at 04:37:01 AM EST

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Sinn Fein is on it.

The former IRA chief-of-staff said that if Britain voted to leave the EU then there was a "democratic imperative" to allow people on the island of Ireland to vote on reunification.
"If Britain votes to leave the European Union then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people," the Sinn Féin leader said.Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein leader, says Irish people should be given a chance to vote on their future. The Guardian reports:
The former IRA chief-of-staff said that if Britain voted to leave the EU then there was a "democratic imperative" to allow people on the island of Ireland to vote on reunification.
"If Britain votes to leave the European Union then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people," the Sinn Féin leader said.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Jun 24th, 2016 at 04:44:27 AM EST
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