'Can anyone recall the last time they heard British Sinn Fein call for a united Ireland ?'

I dunno about that, but God knows I've heard plenty of English people of every political persuasion saying, why don't the Irish sort themselves out?

The fact is that there ARE a lot of your countrymen who feel vehemently that Irish Republic that came out of 1916 and the civil war isn't what they want to be part of.

So if everybody is going to be kept happy - you HAVE to come up with something else - something that is inclusive of everybody's traditions and beliefs.

If you want a united Ireland - the best thing would be to unite. If you just want to go on whingeing because the world doesn't exist in quite the way you would like it ordered - you'd better teach the next generation the words of Four Green Fields and start digging up the rifles.