Border poll and Irish unity
Senator Frances Black welcomes the Taoiseach’s openness to a Good Friday Agreement border poll and cites research projecting major economic gains from Irish unity.
I am pleased that the Taoiseach has not ruled out the triggering of the clause in the Good Friday Agreement on a Border poll, especially given economic research launched recently in New York. Led by Dr. Kurt Huebner, director of the Institute of European Studies at the University of British Columbia, the findings of this research indicate that the unification of Ireland would have the potential to deliver €36.5 billion for the island in the first eight years after unity.