Thank you John Taylor for transforming the Irish unity debate |
THREE cheers for John Taylor. That is the “wouldn’t touch it with a 40-foot barge pole” John Taylor. Three cheers and a big thank you.
I was beginning to despair that the ‘cracks that let the light in’ were not going to happen any time soon.
But John has somewhat restored my optimism.
In a wide-ranging interview in this newspaper last week, he asserted that Irish unity of some kind was inevitable and that political unionism was doing little to prepare for that future.
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I was beginning to think that we were doomed to an incessantly angry argument between those for and those against Irish unity.
That the conversation would have two manifestations: among the academics and the rugby types, a conversation polite on the surface but disguising a deep anger and resentment underneath; while the rest of the population would have little hesitation in revealing the depth of their antagonism, either........