Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he believes that Ireland is 'on the path to unification' and that there will be a united Ireland in his lifetime.
He was then questioned as to what he thought of the band's recent success. The Taoiseach replied: “I was at Electric Picnic, didn't get a chance to see the Wolfe Tones."I probably have a more sanguine view of this than maybe other people. People like ballads and they like songs that they can sing along to.
“I believe that there will be a united Ireland in my lifetime and in that United Ireland there is going to be a minority, roughly a million people who are British and you judge the success and the quality of a country by the way it treats its minorities.
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