Big Mick, Let me know when you are coming a bit in advance. I live about 45 minutes outside Toronto but would love to have a pint with you.

Sorefingers, I don't really think you understood my posting, the problems in the north are all Ireland problems. The people living in the republic will have very little say in the outcome. If by some stretch of the imagination the majority there try to block the possibility of a united Ireland, after we were sacrificed so that they could have their "republic" (something I am sure Collins would have opposed if he had lived) then screw them. The Irish in the 6 counties will go it alone. Having said that I am confident that the vast majority in the 26 counties will welcome us with open arms, after all their ancestors did not fight to gain independence for only a part of the island. It's really sad that the likes of Mick Collins is not alive today, when we need more like him.