Corrymeela, and other encounters, also convinced Martin of the need to build human bonds with unionists. In many ways, the [Sinn Féin] Border poll proposal was a mirror image of the Brexit proposalBut many unionists are at least suspicious of North-South co-operation? “In many ways, the [Sinn Féin] Border poll proposal was a mirror image of the Brexit proposal insofar as [it was] just ‘Let’s have a poll, irrespective of the consequences’. “I get the sense that they [Sinn Féin] have resiled a bit from that, from the immediacy of a Border poll. “If I have to sum up the Sinn Féin approach, it’s more electoral than governmental.

Source: The Irish Times September 11, 2020 03:11 UTC