Letters: We're all Same-ists at heart

Unionists and Irish nationalists living in Northern Ireland have become so staunch and unrelenting in their opposing faiths that new religions have been created.

Unionism at any cost come what may. Irish nationalism at any cost come what may.

What is the difference between a unitary Irish state and union with Britain? It's much easier to imagine the similarities.

What are the differences between a pre-Brexit and a post-Brexit Northern Ireland, for example? A whole political culture built around two ideas which are essentially identical in outcome.

We think we live in a free society yet our choices have been limited deliberately to these two aspirations. It's either Union with Britain or a united Ireland and both are absolutely the same.

Ireland is never going to be the Ireland romanticised by Irish romanticists and the Union with Britain is beyond romanticising.

Louis Shawcross, Hillsborough, Co Down