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'Change is inevitable' - Is a United Ireland 'within touching distance?'

Over the weekend Mary Lou McDonald made a comment that a United Ireland is now ‘within touching distance’ now that Sinn Féin’s Michelle O'Neill is First Minister. Kieran was joined by Kevin Meagher, Former special adviser at the Northern Ireland Office and author of ‘A United Ireland: Why Unification is Inevitable and How It Will Come About’, Robbie Smith, Editor of An Phoblacht and the former General Secretary of Sinn Fein adn Deirdre Heenan, Professor of social policy at Ulster University

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17.40 8 Feb 2024


'Change is inevitable' - Is a United Ireland 'within touching distance?'


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Over the weekend Mary Lou McDonald made a comment that a United Ireland is now ‘within touching distance’ now that Sinn Féin’s Michelle O'Neill is First Minister.

Kieran was joined by Kevin Meagher, Former special adviser at the Northern Ireland Office and author of ‘A United Ireland: Why Unification is Inevitable and How It Will Come About’, Robbie Smith, Editor of An Phoblacht and the former General Secretary of Sinn Fein adn Deirdre Heenan, Professor of social policy at Ulster University


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