risen to 93% of the population. So that's the difference that 3 years has made. And that constituency of pressure is to remain within the UK (or extend the UK to all of the island). That's what unicorns actually look like. 'Her statement, that "there is no constituency of pressure for a united Ireland" might be true for the time it was made (2008, I believe) ' Indeed. Thats probably still the case and in a certain sense will always be the case . But as you correctly state 'If there is a Nationalist majority, there will be a constituency of pressure" But it will not take the form of "the gun in one hand and a ballot paper in the other ' -It promises to be a much more mundane event should it come to pass . For the vast majority of Irish nationalists it will be just the end of a phase of political history which has been since the late 1880?s driven by sectarian fears (not always unjustifiable ) and the desire on the part of an elitist minority to hold on to economic and political power . And that was and is nothing new in the history of nations -just look at the Sunnis in Iraq (Hussein's tribe) and the Aloites in Syria (Assad's tribe ) and even the now dead Gadaffi held power predominantly because of the predominance of the Gadaffi tribe . Newsflash for Alias -- Unicorns don't exist except in fairy tales .