five sixths of the whole country. It has nearly 3 million more citizens. Northern Ireland is only six north eastern counties out of Ireland's 32. And in 2012 it's only maybe 2 of the 6 counties that have a Unionist majority, which would mean only 2 out of 9 Ulster counties is Unionist. Hence saying as a matter of fact there will never be a united Ireland is patent nonsense. Unless we have some psychics on slugger, in which case I'd like to know the midweek lotto numbers, cheers. Whether people in the Republic will vote for a united Ireland is a pointless debate until there's a nationalist majority within the six counties. People down here simply won't think about the north until the time comes to vote and then they will consider the pros and cons of reunification. But I think everyone knows deep down which way a majority in the South will vote if it came to it. The trend in the West is towards empirical breakup. It has been since Liz II was sworn in, and was probably initiated by the great war and perpetuated by the emergence of the free market. The settlement might have slowed that trend here but the world moves on without us. When Scotland, supposedly an equal partner in the United Kingdom, is starting to assert her independence do you really need more evidence? After all, an independence movement only has to be lucky once, Unionists have to be lucky at every