Ireland should rejoin the United Kingdom in 2015

First of all, other than the one source you provided there is nothing I could find about president Higgins saying this. Second of all, the article you provided seemed to be comedic, referring to the president as a wizard, saying he was under the foreign queens spell, and that his spokesperson, Chris Reagan, said that the UK and Ireland were going to fight for independence (the website actually misspelled independence and after a long internet search I could find no evidence that this person existed, though I may be wrong about that so I won't list it as an argument) which is hilariously stupid as they are both mainly supporters of the EU. Also if you had bothered to read anything else on the website you would have discovered it is mainly for comedy with links to articles like a woman's boob crushing and killing 39 people and Oscar Pistorius's stress being so bad he might lose his legs. The website you cited is a comedic, fake one and shows how hilarious it would be if Higgins actually said this because he would be committing political suicide, and in a way actual suicide because people would almost immediately storm his residence and hang him. The actual meeting between the president and queen was about keeping strong friendship between Ireland and the UK, not wanting to join it. Also, I would like to point out that Scotland's referendum to leave the UK already happened, voting no. After citing a comedy website and not bothering to look into Scotland's referendum results, saying it is about to happen, I would definitely advise you to actually validate your sources before posting in future debates. Having disproved your sources, let me begin to dismantle your argument. First of all, you can consider the Irish whatever you want, but that has no real place in a debate. I could consider the Irish unicorn-riding fairy-people of north Macedonia with no real evidence if I wanted to, but that shouldn't be used as an argument in a debate. (No offence to Irish people I don't really think you are fairies or ride unicorns I was just showing an extreme to invalidate his argument :) ) But also, THAT IS COMPLETELY FALSE! The Irish people are a proud, separate people from the rest of the UK and even has been speaking it's own language longer than English. Irish is still recognized as Ireland's language (Although they do use English for economic and international political negotiations just as most of the world) As for your argument about 1/4 of British people having Irish roots, I respond by saying IT DOESN'T MATTER! Approximately 1/5 of Americans have Hispanic descent, does that mean America should join Mexico? Mexicans and people of tons of different backgrounds all live in America, but we don't want to join them. Roots don't have a very large effect in the tension between Ireland and the UK, there are just as many diverse ethnicities and races in Ireland and the UK as there are in the U.S, so of course there will be mixed background but that doesn't mean much. Also, which financial crisis are you talking about? The most famous and most devastating of these crises was the Great Famine, or as some Irish consider it the "Irish Holocaust." They call it this because England and the UK offered almost no financial aid to Ireland and some even speculate that they purposely tried to wipe out as much Irish as possible. (http://www.irishholocaust.org...) Regardless of whether or not this is true, this source shows just a glimpse of the average Irishman's hatred for the UK. Also, joining the UK doesn't necessarily offer economic security. Leaving the Eurozone might be a possibility to help prevent an economic disaster, (although even that isn't definite) but the UK isn't some magical place of economic stability. It is like any other world economy and is subject to rise and fall with the circumstances it faces. Just recently the value of the pound suffered greatly when Scotland looked like it might leave, proving that the UK isn't an economic safe haven. Also, I would like to strengthen my point of how much the Irish hate the English and UK. Judging by the fact that you proposed this debate topic, I take it you have never been to Ireland. If you actually said that you think Ireland should join the UK you would be beaten or killed on the spot. The Irish view what the UK had done as too severe to just put behind them, the scars run too deep. I might be nice if the Irish just forgot about what happened, but to be fair they have some pretty good reasons to be angry. The Irish War of Independence was a bloody war with more than 2,000 deaths total. (http://www.theirishstory.com...) The Irish were tired of living under English "occupation" (depending on who you ask the term differs) and took up arms. The people who gave their lives for a free Irish Republic would have died in vain if they were to simply rejoin the UK. Even since then the Irish never fully forgived England. Incidents such as the Birmingham Six, in which the English wrongly convicted 6 Irish, Catholic Men who were only "guilty of being Irish in the wrong place and wrong time." This sparked rioting and protests and were released after many years later. (http://www.theguardian.com...) Finally, I would like to explain why Ireland joining the UK would simply never work. Even if a majority of Irish people for some reason forgot the atrocities committed by England and decided to join the UK and Higgins somehow approved (Even though If you look anywhere else on the internet you'll see he doesn't support joining) there would still be the extremists who would fight the UK til their death. The Irish Republican Army, generally dubbed a terrorist group, had repeatedly bombed public servants and buildings to try to gain either Irish Independence or Northern Ireland joining Ireland. Joining the UK would ignite a fire among Irish extremists that would no doubt claim tons of lives as it had before. Ireland is almost unanimously against joining and it would cause a violent revolution if it were to join.