John Fitzgerald: L’unificazione irlandese colpirebbe il sud più forte del 2008 La prosperità della Repubblica può far sembrare attraente un’Irlanda unita per molti nel nord, ma il costo sarebbe molto alto per i meridionali
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2025/04/25/the-price-of-irish-reunification-may-be-less-compelling-in-the-south/
di finneyblackphone
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Ok. Let’s get it done.
Sounds like every time I’m stuck in a conversation with some rugby finance boy.
Wow. The Times will go to literally any lengths to disparage the idea of Unification.
Like, how many similar bullshit articles have we seen these last few months?
Let’s not absorb failed state with adverse 50% population
I’d say “they’re getting desperate” but this is just Fitzgerald’s annual hysterical analysis.
Last April it was how Unification would cost 20 billion every year for 20 years.
It’s loo-la shit spreading designed to propagandise through fear and to prevent any realistic and rational discussion taking place about how best to prepare for the inevitable unification of the island through the mechanisms of the GFA so that it works for the benefit of all who live here on the island.
It’s temporary, well end up stronger and better together
Absolutely awful article
The headline to top it off is sensational and not based in reality. Not even in the reality he’s created in the text.
The case for unification was never an economic one. I’ll be voting for unification (if I ever get the chance) in solidarity with Northern Irish nationalists, not because I think it will put more money in my pocket.
It’s sad that the cost of reunification is actually one of the biggest disincentives for people in the Republic. If one of the 26 counties was a net financial loss for the state, what would we do kick them out? Sorry Leitrim, turns out your worth the funds you get, good luck on your own!
For feck sake, we started this state with nothing and we managed. Built houses, a healthcare system, roads, electrified the country, all when we were dirt poor, and people think we’ll never manage reunification as a rich developed nation?
Alas there are few savings to be made through unification.
So much of the North’s economy is state funded by tax payers in London and the south east of England. They can absorb the cumulative “loss”, can the 5 million in the 26? Also imagine having to deal with the political legacy. They can hardly manage a barbecue up there because of “traditions”.
The cost, fuck the cost, it already cost thousands + lives now we’re talking about paper
How are you meant to make a decision like this on an economic basis, that’s like talking about the price of Carlow versus the profits of Dublin
The biggest issue with unification is actually what is the point?
Itll just make it the same situation it is now but the minister with responsibility for northern ireland will be in the republic not the UK.
Will it change much with Irish culture…probably not. its not like we’re all that invested in our language and history anyway (and for the record i think that is to our notable detriment).
What is the point in disturbing the hard won peace after the troubles for a neater looking map?
Edit: anyone keen on downvoting could you provide a reason why, im very much open to change on this view
1 in 3 work for the civil service in the north. That’s insane in comparison. Either way next government will likely be SF who ironically will probably be the ones to stop it happening. It’ll take decades of negotiations which haven’t even started.
Wonder how many patriots here saying “Fuck it do ot anyway!” Would end up hopping onto a plane to another country when the going gets tough
I honestly don’t care how much it costs. There are people up north who are Irish citizens. The times needs to fuck off with their agenda
Your daily pro British propaganda brought to you by the Irish Times.
Unionist batshits in the north have been the greatest push to unify over the years but good old southern west brits can stem the tide with their FF/FG mouth piece papers. Phew can you imagine unifying lads and having to make longterm decisions? Bullet missed
Good to see John continuing the family tradition of being an inveterate partitionist West Brit.
Remember when he published that glorified opinion piece last year claiming a UI would cost 20 Billion a year, which turned out to be based on pure guess-onomics? He must really hate northern Nationalists to continue spreading his baseless propaganda after the brutal dissection of that nonsense.
It will cost in the short to medium term, but making northern Ireland part of the Irish economy, or more preferably put, forming an all Ireland economy, would transform the north massively. It’s a place teeming with young educated people, land and corporate real estate are cheaper, among many other investment incentives once incorporated with the rest of Ireland and part of the EU again. We do need reforms in the south, the health sector in particular is a put off for many northerners when it comes reunification.
It would be nice if the government came out with some concrete and highly-detailed plans for exactly how the entirety of reunification would be managed.
My default position is I will always vote no if there are no specific plans in place for what is going to happen. I’m simply not voting for a “Brexit means Brexit” situation.
Money money money. It’s the new religion.
Isn’t he the same economist who said the economy was sound in 2008 and there is nothing to worry about?…
Did you folks learn nothing from Brexit. If someone asks you ‘Would you vote for a united Ireland?’ The correct response is ‘I’m in favour/against it but i would like to see what I’m voting for first’.
Fk the economy, I’m voting for unification just so the loyalist glue sniffers will have to pay 23% VAT on their glue and a plastic bag tax haha 🖕
Fuck off with this bullshit, another piece trying to push us away from uniting our country.