When Catholics are the majority in Northern Ireland will Ireland be reunited?

aye mick. i wanna go there and drink some Guiness in a pub.

No not really, I am a Catholic and honestly their is nothing to join, in that the countries and aspirations that Nationalism Irish or British of the last 70 years is not there anymore.

If you go into Dublin it does not feel or look like an Irish city The Ireland I remember doesn't exist, the people of the Republic are the most hedonistic people in Europe and the Government is obsessively pro European. It simply does not want reunification because it means nothing to them. I have asked them this question, they either laugh about it or look at you if your from another planet. Dublin can look like downtown Lagos I do not want to be part of that new world order scenario.That does not represent the Irish Nationalism I believe in or the British Nationalism or my fellow countrymen.

In the North you have people living in a Sectarian state of mind, the state is a money sucking parasite run by a Religious fundamentalist and a unreformed terrorist its a farce and besides 51% over 49% in the North of a Catholic majority will not swing reunification, under the GFA both states have to vote and the thinking is that a large minority of Catholics will vote to stay in the UK, and the south would not want 900,000 hostile protestants to deal with. So its not a religious head count but a sectarian one. It doesn't matter who rules us, it will be the same idiots in charge. The Irish Government is just as corrupt and inept as the UK government.

Unelected bureaucrats in Brussels will decide what happens in Ireland not the Irish.

Until the majority of Northern Ireland want to return to Ireland, then it will remain in the UK. Anyone who says it belongs to Ireland are just as bad as those that say it belongs to the UK. It is a democratic region, and makes it own decisions perfectly well, it belongs to whomever it chooses.

It was not Irish troops who died at the hands of Sien Feinn in order to protect the British citizens of Northern Ireland. Leave them full well alone, religion is no matter to Britain anymore, Ireland should move with the times.

Catholics will never be the majority in North Ireland thanks to Queen Elizabeth I who made sure that wouldn't happen. She sent Protestants there to populate the land. I believe the only way that Northern Ireland will ever be united with the Republic is if people, like you, protest enough and Parliament gives up any control it has. However, even if there is a provision for, say, re-settlement in Britain, many of the Protestant families in Northern Ireland have been there for centuries and will not want to leave nor should they have to. They will need to be represented in the Republic's governing body (Don't know if it's also a Parliament.) and they all just need to get along. Integrating neighborhoods and schools is a start, but it sure won't be easy.

I'm a Catholic, btw, in the States, with familial ties to the Republic of Ireland and, more recently, Scotland.

i might say so. maximum Catholics do choose a United eire, and the different with Protestants. i understand a lot of Northern Irish (the present teen era) and that they at the instant are not on board with the full Northern-eire-being-section-of-Britain concern, i think of NI may be greater effective off devoid of the united kingdom and vice versa. yet dissimilar the Unionists are keen to die to stay an element of the united kingdom, 'reason they think of that the IRA is like Taliban - in the event that they actually appeared into Irish historic previous that they had discover out that the united kingdom has carried out issues worse than bombings to eire contained in the previous and that sparked a never-ending grudge against the neighbours which maintains right this moment. i'm honestly specific that some blood would be shed if eire is United for the 1st time in over a million/2 a millennium. there'll probable be some Unionist military and that they are going to bomb Dublin, or some thing. Then the IRA (the main effective terrorist agency in historic previous in the previous 9/11) will weigh down them into the floor and dance on their grave - which will anger the the rest Unionists who will flow and negatively impression the economic device. i'm hoping for a United eire, it would be tremendous.

I don't think this is a sensible question it could be construed to being racist, because it imply 's that catholics are having kids simply to oust protestants from their dominant position within the north ireland political scene and demography. Whether northern Ireland ever reunites with the south isn't really down to just the peoples of northern ireland, its down to the whole Uk population, its likely that if such a proposition where ever to be mused by politicians there would be hue n cry resulting in a NO vote if a referendum were to be invoked .

In the end doe's anyone really care, the Irish political scene is a mine field of bigots blarney talkers with giant egos.. who all seem to be pains in the butts. due their intransigence and self importance.

To start with the Irish split Ireland not the British . The south chose to leave the UK the north chose to stay . Secondly , Dublin doesn't want the six counties back , the benefits bill alone would cripple Ireland .

It's best just left alone . At the moment the provence has the most stable situation it has had in decades , why cause more trouble ?

Very interesting question. The original decision to split the Island was based on the majority of the six counties in the North being protestant. Since the partition the population of the two factions, Catholic and Protestant have grown disproportionally. By the middle of this century, if not before, the Catholics will be in majority. Therefore, in terms of the original agreement, the six counties should vote to reunite with the Eire. However, I suspect this will depend on the Celtic Tiger and if it lies dead as it is now, a spent force that was bloated by EU money and broken by the banks.

Northern Ireland belongs to whoever the people of Ireland want it to belong to - who are you to say what country they should be a part of?

Perhaps, but there are more than religious differences between the North and the South.

When you say 'soon', do you mean years or decades?

I'd love to see it too. But so many opportunities have already been missed:

1/ Churchill offering re-unification in return for Ireland giving up neutrality during WW2: Rejected.

2/ The EU could have refused to let Britain & Ireland join until re-united. That would have got Britain off the hook, the unionists could have been told, sorry, we'd no choice. They should have done that with Cyprus too!

I sure hope so. Northern Ireland does belong to Ireland.