Unionists should campaign for the Republic to join UK

Who would have thought when the IRA/Sinn Fein killing machine was operating at its peak, that today, not only would SF be sitting in government in Stormont helping to administer British rule but in the forthcoming Euro referendum would be campaigning as pro-unionists?

By The Newsroom

Published 22nd Feb 2016, 10:24 BST

Updated 22nd Feb 2016, 10:30 BST

For them to celebrate the 1916 rebellion is an act of hypocrisy. Those rebels died for nothing. The independence which cost them so much was soon sold to Brussels and now republicans have abandoned the idea of a nation once again.

Irish independence is not even on their radar – they are happy to promote servitude to unelected Eurocrats.

Surely it is time for unionists to campaign for the return of the Republic to the UK fold. If they so love the EU they should cherish us more with a common language, wars fought against a common enemy and our Judaeo-Christian heritage. And the popularity of our Queen on her historic visit to the Republic shows that the love of a monarchy has not been entirely extinguished by events since 1916.

The old war cry “ourselves alone” has long since been consigned to the history books.

Ronnie Crawford, Dromore BT25