Ireland's Future: Political unionism adopting ‘ostrich approach’ to Irish unity

The majority of political unionism has adopted “the ostrich approach” to the possibility of a united Ireland, a conference in Belfast has heard.

Mr Collins said that Brexit had made Irish unity “an urgent necessity” and “reiterated the fact that our views didn’t count, we weren’t taken into account”. He told the crowd that his early days were filled with violence. On a morning in 1972 the IRA detonated a car bomb that injured him on his way to Sunday school, which led to children calling him “scar face”.

He added “that type of discovery, that type of myth-busting, that type of raising above propaganda” is what caused him to question the first-past-the-post system.Claire Mitchell, a former lecturer at Queen’s University, argued that “deeper values” than constitutional positions need to be offered to people in Northern Ireland, particularly in relation to the climate change crisis.

Did the hall empty?

That’ll never happen 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Colin works for SF for a cowboy supper and a selfie

So he thinks loyalist will just lay down ?

And why not.

Swearymary__ That should have made the news much more than it did… but reporters prefer up the Ra action 🙄

Pretty sure the Professor tile is irrelevant since, This is not a QUB sponsored event. His academic experience is irrelevant to the cause of a UI. Misleading from both person and event.

Ok Colin 😂

The diversity of this audience 🤣

Brilliant speech. And great to see so many people in attendance. 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

There are more nationalists in favour of the UK than unionists to a UI. You'll not mention that.

Good for him. 👍

chrisadonnelly and if they're lucky, I might let the libs have their scrote, for jimmy and the butchers!

chrisadonnelly eaasy to get meat from a hiding ostrich, and eggs :p

chrisadonnelly You spoke very well Chris

Lots of ostrich-like behaviour in these replies. It's depressing when you see people actively giving away their chance for input, remember the threshold is 50% plus one vote. Hardcore Unionism will never be swayed but poor behaviour will sway others and make all of the difference

🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣

No.

Yet he is a PIRA supporter, who supports 1700 PIRA murders. PIRA supporters for some reason currently appear to support peace but only since the PIRA were defeated in 1998🤔

I think it is very sectarian to be identifying people simply as Protestant, what next, Yellow Stars for Prods?

Sorry i couldn't been their tonight my cover was blown

Plank there won't be any Irish unity

Don't speak for me and majority in loyalist community wasters the lot of them

Brilliant & well attended too.

“Speakers from a Protestant background……”

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