So make me welcome.......

That's a stroke of a pen concession and pragmatic.

Perhaps given the views you have expressed the first thing we should be doing is fostering relationships between Derry, Belfast, Galway, Waterford, Limerick and Cork. From my own experience many in Northern Ireland seem to have a view that the republic is Dublin and religious farmers.

Perhaps a few subsidised air routes would encourage more interaction. I've gone to the North a lot more than most Corkonians but to be honest heading to the North of Scotland is possibly easier since the flight that crashed.

The idea of a United Ireland is romantic at best in this day and age. For those that still belive they are fighting against an occupation.

I'm Irish and I never see it happening and if we were given a vote I'd vote no to reunion.

What's the point at this stage ?

Loyalists hate my type. A person with a republic accent. Ive been at the end of sectarian abuse countless times simply because of my accent.

Politicians will never change that hate the Northern Loyalists feel towards people born down the road from them.

Any union would be a disaster. There can never be union. Think of the word. Not going to happen

Problem is, there won't be many unionists voting for unity. It will come down to nationalists and ex-unionists or never-unionists who have always voted with their wallet in their hand.

When a successful vote happens, there will be a lot of hair torn out and gnashing of teeth, but that minority - less than 10% - will have little influence on the resulting changes. Many of them might to decide not even to vote in the first couple of elections after unification. Northern Nats will likely want stronger rather than weaker policies on various aspects of Irishness, although they may concede some exception regarding Irish in the school system for practical reasons. Transitory Provisions are often built into laws when a new system is set up, and this is a likely form regarding aligning various differences in the two regions of the new state.

Actually, east Germany only re-created the Lander as a mechanism for uniting with West Germany. The New west Germany is not a successor state of east Germany, i.e. East Germany ceased to exist.

OP, your questions are all political. And will only be answered by the voters at the time of a United Ireland. Many will want a NHS style healthcare system free at the point of delivery for everyone and many will want a system we have now where healthcare is prioritised for the wealthy. That debate is going on here and in the UK. You need to wake up of your think the NHS will survive another period of Tory rule.

Unity is about whether you want to make political decisions in Ireland or you prefer to be ruled, as a colony, from Westminster. There are no guarantees either way, what policies might be implemented of abandoned. (Think of the Scottish voters who voted against independence because they were afraid they would lose EU membership.)

So I feel like the OP has made up there mind already, but I'll chuck in my views

First off, for NI there isn't just the binary choice of United Republic of Ireland or the UK

There is for example the possibility of independence from both bodies (probably no advantage tbh) or some sort of federal republic of both ROI and NI

In both those cases the NI assembly would continue to exist and would retain various degrees of independence for making laws

I suspect the federal government idea wouldn't fly too well in ROI, if northern Ireland gets it's own government then why not an independent government for Munster or Connacht? The Irish government would probably prefer to shut down that argument before it even begins

So in the case of a united republic, it's also worth considering that the people of NI aren't powerless in this process, and it would be up to their elected representatives to negotiate to ensure NI's advantages are maintained as much as possible

I'll be brutally honest and I don't think either of SF or DUP/UUP/TUV would be any good for this. SF would try to match the Republic as much as possible in terms of promoting Irish language and essentially trying to erase the unionist identity

The unionist parties would most likely try to boycott any negotiations and the resulting settlement would be to their detriment

In terms of the advantages NI enjoys currently, there seem to be 2 or 3 that stand out

NHS is the main one mentioned by the OP. Now depending on who you ask, the NHS is either the world's greatest health service (if you vote Tory) or an utter shambles that has been hollowed out by successive governments and no longer fit for use

I'm not sure which is closer to the truth but on paper the NHS is better being a universal healthcare system, rather than our subsidised version

I suspect the push towards Slaintecare is a way to mimic the NHS and is quietly a way to make the Republic more attractive

The other main advantage I can see for NI is it's current unique position with actress to both UK and EU

I believe in 2021 the NI economy grew by around 15%, second highest in the UK for that year

Joining the republic would most likely remove or severely limit access to the UK, so there's no clear advantage there at the moment

However, this position is an advantage until it isn't. The cynic in me says that the UK government isn't happy that the only part of the UK that remained part of the EU is doing better than the rest

It's possible this is partly behind the efforts the UK was going to to dismantle the NI protocol. Doing so would likely force checks between ROI and NI, or between ROI and the rest of the EU

If a situation came about where NI could only have access to one market, then it'll come down to fairly simple economics

The UK is the biggest export destination, however I believe most of the goods going between both countries are covered under the existing trade agreements.

In any case, the UK doesn't seem to be performing any customs checks on incoming goods from the EU, so the flow of trade would probably remain the same as it currently is

So for NI is it worth losing access to the EU market, in return for keeping access to the UK, particularly when they would have almost the same level of access inside the EU

The last major advantage I can think of is the ability for NI citizens to live and work in the UK. Presumably this would still be in place if the Common Travel Area still exists this would still be in place

However if Ireland joined the Schengen area then the CTA would probably cease to exist. In this case, I imagine there will be a cut off date whereby NI citizens born after a certain date would no longer be able to apply for UK citizenship. Basically the same situation as in ROI for people born before 1949

As others have said, I don't think the gulf between the two countries are as great as some imply. There was even a commentary on RTE some time ago about how the unionist parties may find more common cause with some of the more conservative groups in Ireland than in the UK (the Haely Reas were mentioned as potential bedfellows)

Not really sure how much truth there is to that, but the unionists have worked with the baby eating Catholics in the past when is suited them