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Poll shows Irish support unification but don’t want to pay for it
Financial factors loom large 100 years after partition
DUBLIN – Citizens of the Republic of Ireland will happily take Northern Ireland off Britain’s hands – but only if they don’t have to pay the bill, a new poll reveals.
- Shawn Pogatchnik
- Politico
After a century of partition, two-thirds of people in the Republic support unification of their island, according to the poll published Saturday in the Irish Independent.
Most expect an island-wide referendum to be held on the issue in the coming decade, as envisaged in the 1998 Good Friday peace deal that followed three decades of bloodshed over…
To succeed, majorities…