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http://uk.businessinsider.com/r-eu-to-say-united-ireland-would-be-automatic-full-member-2017-4?r=US&IR=T

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders at a Brexit summit on Saturday should give a formal undertaking to embrace the British province of Northern Ireland in the EU if a referendum unites the island, diplomats said on Friday.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has previously asked fellow members of the bloc to acknowledge that Northern Ireland would, like East Germany in 1990, automatically enter the EU in the event of unification with the existing member state, the Irish Republic.

Kenny will ask the other 26 leaders meeting in Brussels to endorse a negotiating plan for Britain’s withdrawal to give a political endorsement to what Irish and EU legal experts say is the position in international law of such territorial changes.

“It would merely state the obvious, i.e. that also a united Ireland would continue being a member of the EU,” a source close to preparations for the European Council said.

“The EU does of course not take a stance on the possibility of a united Ireland. Should this question arise, it would be for the peoples of Ireland and Northern Ireland to decide in accordance with the Good Friday Agreement.”

The 1998 peace accord, backed by the British and Irish states, says referendums should be held on both sides of the border to approve unification of the island. The current British government has acknowledged that Northern Ireland, if it united with the Republic, should be in a position to rejoin the EU.

The leaders, meeting without British Prime Minister Theresa May, would enter their agreement with Kenny’s position in the formal minutes of the Council. These are normally published only after a subsequent meeting, though they are likely in this case to be made public immediately by those taking part in the summit.

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Who wants those layabout cunts.

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Imagine if Enda Kenny was the one to achieve a United Ireland :grinning:

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Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance, asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done.[

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A United Ireland would be a great thing.

Hon Ireland. Hon Enda. Hon Thomas Davis you great proddie

All well and good but who is gonna foot the bill .

Europe of course.

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The Golden Circle.

The 51 will go bankrupt within a week

Hon Europe

It will pay for itself in no time.

We should offer to take the North off the Brit’s hands if they give us a load of money up front to invest in reunification. We should ask the EU to match those funds. We should pour that money to investing infrastructure to connect the North to the rest of the island. Build a motorway network from Belfast across the north of the country towards Sligo and promote it as a counter to Dublin. Irish America would love it, they’d be falling over themselves to get involved. It would be fabulous.

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Good man Brian… This would be a great opportunity to reinvent Ireland Inc. We need more progressive thinking like this and not the backward parish pump types that have bled us for generations.

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We could rename ourselves Ireland United and market ourselves to Far East fans.

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Why not. We’d be a regular in Europe and can attract big names.

The empire is crumbling and all they will be left with is a dump like Wales sucking the life out of them.
But at least they will have no more immigrants taking their jobs. Oh no wait…

I think he has to stay on a few more years so.

Balls why would we want them unionist

A United Ireland is very close…Catholics are out breeding them up there.

Last thing anyone wants though is a return to the troubles…its a tough one.

They were always the protaganist in that conflict.

Glad to give that a tenth like matey, we need more thinking like yours.

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Fair point but there should be better infrastructure west of the Bann . Belfast is well served connectivity wise .