It will require vision, but no more than the vision that has transformed Ireland. It will require imagination, but no more than that shown by the British people in the last two years. The old ways ARE changing between London and Dublin. And this can spur the change and healing in Northern Ireland too. The old notions of unionist supremacy and of narrow nationalism are gradually having their fingers prised from their grip on the future.
Different traditions have to understand each other.
Just as we must understand your yearning for a united Ireland, so too must you understand what the best in unionism is about. They are good and decent people, just like you. They feel threatened. Threatened by the terrorism with which they have had to live for so long. Threatened, until the Good Friday agreement, that they would be forced into a united Ireland against the will of the people of Northern Ireland.