‘No border poll this decade, and Sinn Féin know it’ - Bertie Ahern

A border poll on a united Ireland will not happen this decade, and Sinn Féin will recognise this if they get into power, Bertie Ahern has said.

The former Taoiseach said that too much preparatory work had yet to be done to assess the economic, social and institutional shape of a united Ireland, and that it would be the end of the decade before all of that was figured out. He said the failed Scottish ...