We cannot know what would have happened if there had never been a Northern Ireland

There are too many what ifs and what would have beens in Tom Nash’s letter (‘After a centenary of Northern Ireland try to imagine if it had never existed,’ January 12. The letter can be read below, see link) for it to have any meaning.

If Home Rule had been implemented in 1914 there might not have been an Easter rising and the momentum for independence might have been slowed if not halted by a substantial pro Union bloc.

Ireland might still have been in the UK or at very least Commonwealth at the outbreak of the second world war and might well have provided that vital role of support for the war effort.

Noel McCune, Newry

Letter: After a centenary of Northern Ireland try to imagine if it had never existed

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