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#731 Would You Pay More Tax To Save The Dream Of A United Ireland?
Niall talks to Stephen Delaney and Cormac Lucey about one of the biggest political and economic questions facing the island of Ireland, should there finally be a border poll on a United Ireland?
It has now been 28 years since the Good Friday Agreement, yet there has still been no referendum on Irish unity and no clear roadmap towards a 32 county republic. While support for reunification continues to grow in some quarters, others warn that the emotional argument for unity is very different from the economic reality.
The North of Ireland has been financially supported by the UK Treasury for…
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