Should Donegal join Northern Ireland?

How about a swap for Armagh and Down?

Are you asking should Donegal join Northern Ireland, or should we just dump Donegal on Northern Ireland?

EDIT - Hmm.... interesting user name, first post - journalist or troll?

The Irish government is progressing a major upgrade of roads in Donegal. See

This is supposed to be done in conjunction with a new A5 in the north. I'd have more faith in the Donegal projects being delivered than the A5 tbh, that's thats with Ireland paying a chunk towards it.

NI are not upgrading the Belfast-Derry road to a motorway. The current Dungiven bypass isn't even motorway and there is no way a motorway will be built by Glenshane pass. The rest of the A6 east of there is unlikely to see major investment any time soon.

True. East Germany had railways.

How is that one supposed to happen? A referendum by the people of Donegal would probably be the best democratic option to do so? And then, as you said yourself, there is Brexit to consider as well. And then there are citizenship matters to be considered. Citizens of NI can have both passports, British and Irish, as far as I know. What would be the worst is if it wasn't to the people of Donegal to decided but the decision being made by Dublin and London. However I would doubt that that would happen.

What I would have considered is Fermanagh to join the Republic of Ireland as Fermanagh is majority catholic. It's at least worth a consideration.

It'll be different this time, if the British are moving to Ireland again. They will come to Ireland as refugees from an isolationist and Brexit-sticken country which is ruled by a blonde madman who never even learned how to comb his hair.

Donegal is in northern Ireland. In fact, a spot in Donegal is the most northerly on the whole island.

Should it join the temporarily little arrangement whereby 6 of our counties are under the influence of foreign invaders, because it has car registration plates that some people make look similar? Well I think the ridiculousness of that proposition speaks for itself.

The thing is that in contrary to Scotland where an independence referendum would have to be approved by London, Northern Ireland can actually hold a referendum on their future without London's consent.

The problem to this is that even if that referendum in Northern Ireland would see a result of a majority in favour of leaving the UK and joining the Republic of Ireland, that this is not automatically going to happen.

I would suggest that the FF and the SF and a couple of other radical republicans will probably be very happy if there ever was a majority in the North for reuniting with the Republic, but big future problems might arise. ( Also it's not clear that every catholic in Northern Ireland would automatically vote for reuniting with the Republic )

Say for instance if the government in Dublin would in a unified Ireland then rule over Northern Ireland and the protestant, loyalist or unionist communities don't like what Dublin is doing, would then the UFF and the UDF start bombings in Dublin?

It doesn't mean that this would happen, but the possibility of a conflict with deadly and violent intent being carried out on the soil of the Republic of Ireland would always be there. It's a scary thought which must always be considered.

And then there are financial implications. Northern Ireland currently receives transfer payments from London, - they would cease to exist and Dublin would have to pay that bill, - with EU subsidies or not. Ultimately it'll be the question, in whose pockets you'd rather have your hands, in London's or in Bruxelles's?

This is obviously not a serious question. The only underground appetite for this would be in the orange lodges of the county. Donegal isn't going anywhere.

Also the NHS is already on the brink in NI just dealing with 6 counties. Type 'Northern Ireland health crisis' into Google and you'll get plenty of info on it.

Screw joining NI, would much rather go the Goats Don't Shave route and become a wet, grey Monaco.

That would be between £5.7 bn and £11.3 bn a year. We are not building the DART Underground for 30 years because it costs around €10 bn in total.

So we could definitely afford unification, not.

Immigrant loving England taking in 1m+ of their 'brethren' and giving them all houses and land? What could possibly go wrong??

Maybe closer to 800k, if the percentage is under 50%, and that's if they all wanted to leave. I'd guess the 'hard' unionist base is around 20% of the population, maybe even less. Could sell it to the English as a reverse plantation, here's who can come in and do all the minimum wage jobs like picking vegetables, cleaners and drivers, now they've kicked everyone else post-Brexit!