Taoiseach Says New Initiative Needed for Defining Debate on Irish Unity

New body to examine options for Irish unity, says Taoiseach

Micheál Martin says ‘partisan’ push for Border poll since Brexit vote has concerned him

Initiative needed to define Irish unity debate

A new initiative is required to challenge all traditions to engage with "hard evidence" on different constitutional frameworks around unity, the Taoiseach has said.

Taoiseach says new initiative needed for defining debate on Irish unity

Evidence, not inevitability: the Taoiseach’s plan for Ireland’s futures…

The Taoiseach's new constitutional research body will examine three futures for the island: a unitary state, a devolved united Ireland and the status quo. Rather than staking everything on a border poll that may never come, it builds an evidence base, and a set of tools for future taoisigh, that will be useful whatever happens.