Northern Ireland Border poll is ‘good idea’ but would be defeated held now, Taoiseach saysLeo Varadkar says a defeat now would take reunification off the agenda for years
Politics Sinn Féin should agree to no border poll for 10 years – Liz O’DonnellFormer government minister says political unity between the north and south of Ireland ‘should not be presented as imminent’
Cathal Mac Coille: Political clumsiness aside, we need to talk about Irish unity Leo Varadkar’s timing and motives are debatable, but his speech raises a topic that bears discussing without much more delay
Neale Richmond: No discussion can be off the table when it comes to a shared islandA united Ireland will not simply see the North assimilate into today’s Ireland, it will take a lot of work to build trust and co-operation, but it can be done
Eastwood says Britain could hold snap border poll soonThe SDLP leader says the poll might opportunistically be staged while there is still a unionist majority in the North