Yes, it is in the Good Friday Agreement
To clarify, yes, it’s a serious option. I had assumed mol meant “option” as in “possibility in the near future”.
Would the ROI even be interested in taking on the north in any form anyway??
I’m not sure they’d be massively keen – politics there is an utter mess at the moment but if a majority were to vote for re-unification, I don’t think they could possibly say “no”.
Would they have to put border crossings between NI and the mainland then? Otherwise it’s a bit of a back door into the UK from the EU isn’t it?
Nobody knows right now. RoI isn’t part of schengen at the moment, so there may be something there. There’s not a chance this will be sorted in two years – FFS, how long did it take to sort out what days what flags could be flown from government buildings!?
Utter sidetrack – can you get Irish keyboards with accented letters on? Or do you just know the numeric keypad codes for them?
There is only one accent in Irish – the fada over vowels:
a (ah) becomes á (aw)
e (eh) becomes é (ay to rhyme with hay)
i (i as in “igloo”) becomes í (ee)
o (uh) becomes ó (oh as in more)
u (uh) becomes ú (oo is in food)
And as it’s gaelic, shedloads of small variations depending on what consonants precede or follow.
“fada” literally means “long” so what it does is broaden the sound of the vowel. There’s a combination of keys on a mac keyboard (alt-e, then press vowel) that places this accent over the vowel – probably more for the acute in French, which I learned as my own first name has the accent.
Anyway…back to politics.