There are in fact two separate questions - should Northern Ireland be linked to the United Kingdom, and should it be linked to the Republic of Ireland. I suspect there are quite a lot of people in Northern Irekand who'd probably say "No" to both questions - and others who would say "Yes" to both. And in the peculiar politics of Noirthern Irelkand I suppose both of them would count as some kind of Unionmist.

Logically in any partnership the other partner should have a right to say whether they want to be linked or not.

Still, logic doesn't come into it, and I know this is all empty talk, because the Good Friday agreement limits options on all this.

Of course if they ever get rid of the monarchy, there'd be no United Kingdom by definition, so it should all be up for grabs... (The other way out would be for the House of Commons to end the ban on a Catholic being monarch, which it is quite likely to do - then Prince Charles converts, and we see how that affects enthusiasm for the Union among some elements in the Six Counties.)