All Ireland poll shows cross-border support for Irish unity and EU membership
https://www.thejournal.ie/all-ireland-poll-shows-support-for-irish-unity-and-eu-membership-7031946-May2026/
Posted by vague_intentionally_
All Ireland poll shows cross-border support for Irish unity and EU membership
https://www.thejournal.ie/all-ireland-poll-shows-support-for-irish-unity-and-eu-membership-7031946-May2026/
Posted by vague_intentionally_
10 Comments
As long as Michael Martin is in charge of Fianna Fáil it will never happen.
He’s unionisms greatest ally. A pro partitionist.
Keeps putting it on the long finger making excuses and making no effort to help plan for it. All the while saying the troubles were the fault of nationalists. Which we know to be untrue.
Even if you are against reunification – to not make plans for debates, what a UI might look like, or even efforts to broach the topic properly, is out of order.
Online surveys are often bollox
That poll is weird. It has 60% of over 55s supporting a united Ireland but Protestants made up over 50% of the over 50s (hence over 55 now) in the 2021 census. I know, don’t do a religious headcount etc, but it’s just a fact that the support is divided by religion.
I’d be more inclined to believe a higher pro-Irish support among younger people, and previous polls have shown a majority do aspire to a united Ireland (eventually but not yet) *and* in recent elections nationalist candidates have got about 2x more transfers from the middle than unionists, but voting for a UI if a border poll was conducted tomorrow still seems unlikely.
I am not sure the Island of Ireland is ready for unification just yet
The peace agreement is too precious to take the risk at this moment imho
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Details need to be ironed out now even if only in principle.
What happens to all the civil service jobs and pensions in the north ?
What happens to unionists who consider themselves British still, do their kids get a claim to citizenship of the UK ?
What happens to the military bases ?
Hundreds of questions like that big and small
The interesting thing here is the framing of the question, making Irish unity an enabler for EU membership.
I think SF as an anti EU party needs to, in effect STFU and let the adults in the room make the case to middle ground NI that a vote for unity is a vote for Europe.
All of this hunger striker, 800 years of oppression, uber Republican stuff is about as likely to win a border poll as Putin is to have a free and fair election.
It’s acid in the mouth of the Shinners but Leo Varadkar would make a much better pitch to unionism than Mary Lou.
Facts
It would be great to see the actual questions asked in these polls.
For ease of reference, the full poll results are at the link below
[https://www.europeanmovement.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/EU-Poll-2026.pdf](https://www.europeanmovement.ie/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/EU-Poll-2026.pdf)
We are always going to be in debt, we are always going to have eejits in government, we are always going to have people complaining and taking advantage of systems, so there is no actual reason to not bring it in.
The sooner the better, for all of us it will take time and feel a bit off for a while, but as our kids and grand kifs grow, they may be lucky enough to see life without an imaginary line seperating us