Cover story suggests that everything has changed because of Sinn Féin’s success
because the demographics and the youth vote were moving that way “and we will both be in the European Union”.
The Economist concluded the island of Ireland “needs a plan” that would involve making unionists feel wanted in a “new Ireland”. “ Work is needed on the nuts and bolts of unification – including how to, and indeed whether to, merge two health systems , the armed forces and police services, and what to do about the north’s devolved assembly. It helps that the republic has a fine record for the sort of citizen-led constitutional consultations that might help sort things out.
“Politicians from Britain and Ireland need to start talking, too. The price of ending violence two decades ago was for Northern Ireland, the republic and Britain to jointly set out a political route to a united Ireland. If the people of the north and the republic choose that path, the politicians must follow it.”
In its briefing section, which is a longer article about the prospect of a united Ireland, it quotes President Donald Trump’s Irish-American chief of staff,
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