Politics

Sinn Féin should agree to no border poll for 10 years – Liz O’Donnell

Former government minister says political unity between the north and south of Ireland ‘should not be presented as imminent’

Liz O’Donnell: former junior minister at Department of Foreign Affairs. Picture: Bryan Meade

A border poll on a united Ireland should not be held for another 10 years, according to a former Irish minister who worked on the Good Friday Agreement.

Liz O’Donnell, who served as junior minister in the Department of Foreign Affairs during peace talks, told members of the Oireachtas Good Friday committee today that Northern Ireland was “not in a state of mind” to be talking about a border poll, which she called “premature”.

“I ...