Planning for the reunification of Northern Ireland! Taoiseach announces new agency

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Friday (30th) that the Irish government will establish an exclusive agency to conduct research and preparations on the possibility of future unification with British Northern Ireland.

According to "Reuters", Martin said in an interview that since Brexit, the discussion promoting the border referendum has been too biased towards a single party position and ignored the opinions of all parties; the newly established agency will conduct in-depth research on different constitutional structures, including Northern Ireland remaining in the United Kingdom, or maintaining local decentralized entities under the structure of a united Ireland.

Martin plans to present a preliminary plan to the cabinet before the end of this year, and the ruling Fine Gael party is also expected to release a unification blueprint at the party congress next week.

According to the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998, if a majority of Northern Ireland voters favor reunification, the British government is obliged to hold a referendum. Although the majority of opinion polls still support remaining in the United Kingdom, more and more Northern Irish people are turning to support unification since Brexit and the vigorous propaganda of the unification party Sinn Fein.