Opinion

United Ireland a long way off

SINN Fein think they are on a roll. I have news for them. The overall nationalist/republican vote in the EU election was 38 per cent, a decline on last time. The overall unionist vote in the same election was 53 per cent an increase of 3 per cent. Clearly the gap between unionism and nationalism/ republicanism is widening. A united Ireland is as far away as ever.