[Brian Griffin]

I’m not sure the Republic of Ireland wants (or is able) to pay the welfare costs of Northern Ireland.

[Gay State Conservative]

For many decades the Republic of Ireland has had written into its Constitution that *anyone* born *anywhere* on the island of Ireland is automatically and instantly a citizen of the Republic. They changed that a few years for the *entire* island...but today the overwhelming majority of those living in NI are citizens of Eire. So if an independence vote were to succeed in NI it's hard to imagine that unification didn't take place.