Surely the whole point about democracy is to ask the people of Northern Ireland what they want, rather than have people from Eire declaring what they would like the Northern Irish to have?

I recall they did that, by way of plebiscite, in the 1970s. I recall the vote was about 76% in favour of remaining as part of the UK. These are British people so the UK Government has a duty to listen to what they want and to continue to provide it.

It would have been very easy for the UK Government to capitulate to the bombers way back then, but surely no nation should ever want to turn its back on its own people in the face of a declared desire to remain part of the UK.

Maybe they need another plebiscite.