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David McCann: Time to start shaping Irish unity debate

A quick win for a Sinn Féin administration in Dublin would be to set up a citizens' assembly on Irish unity early in its first term. PICTURE: MAL McCANN
David McCann
Pro-unity advocates have always faced a quandary in the border poll debate and that is: how you move the debate when the ultimate cards are held by the British government as to when a referendum is ca[...]

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