Should Donegal join Northern Ireland?

Everyone knows it's the youth that makes the difference, the only way NI will be part of Ireland is if the 30% of those in NI who identify as Irish multiple like rabbits, and win that race through numbers.It's a thing in the US this, Republicans have far more kids than Democrats, it's a simple numbers game.

Looking at recent NI elections there would be a stronger case for Derry City ( Foyle Constituency ) which has 82% nationalist voters to be become part of Republic Of Ireland than Donegal going anywhere.

Whilst your at it you also close by have West Tyrone 61% Nationalist and Mid Ulster 60% Nationalist which would be more at home in ROI. Equally over the other side of the province South Down 64% Nationalist and Newry& Armagh 62% Nationalist should also be in the south .

The Unionist Vote in those 5 constituencies is only 12% in Foyle , 28% in West Tyrone, 30% in Mid Ulster, 22% in South Down and 30% in Newry & Armagh .

Always a good excuse to post these - now it conflates religion with national identity but they correlate closely anyway when it comes to NI...

The pettiness of the powers that be, that they couldnt even be arsed building a motorway between the 2 largest cities, as one of them is full of 'themmuns'. Same story as building a motorway to the other largest city on the whole island, instead its a DC spur off the motorway to the metropolis of Portadown, not to Newry and onwards to Dublin. Even the cross community effort to link Dublin to Donegal and also Derry through the North with the A5, which the ROI was fronting a lot of cash for, has been hampered for years by unionist controlled councils - incredibly petty.

Why would donegal want to join that when you see how Derry and the western part of NI is treated??

There is an agreed procedure in regards to the status of NI, which re-partition would tear up. You'd be effectively ensuring that Nationlists in Down and Antrim would be in a sectarian statelet again, forever.

The original partition was supported by a majority on both sides, as shown by the electoral results. What reasons those in Southern Ireland / Free State had for supporting it is a different discussion people can have if they want, but they elected sufficient pro-Treaty TDs for it to happen.

There is absolutely no political support for doing it again. Nationalists wouldn't be happy with dumping part of their own base; Unionists don't want to give up anything.

There is a specific, agreed mechanism for dealing with Northern Ireland.

Your idea, which has no political support, would lead to pogroms in West Belfast.

Thats codswallop and you know it-Derry is 82% nationalist

Only if it was put in writing that the conditions of leaving the ROI meant taking Daniel O’Donnell with them.

Isn’t the old joke that Donegal never gets mentioned in the weather. In the ROI or NI. I always felt there was a grain of truth to it the forgotten county.

The north missed the boat in taking on Donegal. Along the coast during good weather you’d think you were in Northern Ireland as there are so many NI Reg cars there.

Unless they own all the holiday homes too.

may as well since its already in Ulster, and the Unionists think they own all of that