It is more than tricky to sell a united Ireland to unionists

A newspaper article entitled ‘Selling Irish Unity to unionists will be tricky, says Sinn Fein chief McDonald’, brought as much disgust to me as the (not the IRA’s) show of strength at Storey’s funeral did.
By Archibald Toner
Published 19th Sep 2020, 07:30 BST
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McDonald, like all Shinners, is light years behind reality.

She should try to sell Sinn Fein and their republican brand to unionists. Given that there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell of that being successful then the ‘tricky’ nature of the Irish unity thing should be self evident after that.

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Then we have her showing common trait audacity by announcing as ‘daft’ the claim of those properly placed to make it of the belief that the IRA army council has political influence over Sinn Fein.

Surely now it’s time anyway for the government’s security services, North and South, to make public the names of these clandestine individuals who make up this governing council, and then we will truly see how daft things are, not least the Good Friday Agreement!

We all have a democratic right to know this, irrespective of religion or political belief.

The last I knew it, the IRA was still an illegal terrorist organisation, as it was when they laid slaughter to the exact same unionist peoples referred to by Mary Lou McDonald — and a unionist peoples who republicans will always inherently loathe.

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I think ‘tricky’ is a bit of an understatement therefore Mary Lou!

Archibald Toner, Dromore, Co Down

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