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ANALYSIS: Planning for unity and a border poll may be necessary but calling for both is a contradiction

Mary Lou McDonald called for a border poll in the event of a post-Brexit hard border. Picture by Hugh Russell
JOHN MANLEY
IT'S a given that the harder the Brexit and the harder the border then the greater the desire for Irish unification will be. The Eurosceptic project led by English nationalists has not only further [...]

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