Sinn Féin vice-president urges Dublin Government to make preparations for referendum
The Sinn Féin vice-president has said a referendum on Irish unity is “closer than we have ever been previously” and urged the Government in Dublin to begin planning for a unitedSpeaking to Sky News on Sunday morning, Michelle O’Neill said that “now is the time for them to make that preparation.
“Let’s not fall into the traps that have been fallen into in terms of Brexit. Make the preparation, let’s start to have a healthy conversation about the things that matter everyday to people,” she said. Under the Belfast Agreement, a referendum on Irish unity can only be called the Northern Secretary, when it appears likely than it would be approved by a majority in the North and the South.
Ms O’Neill, who was the North’s deputy first minister until first minister Paul Givan’s resignation, also accused the UK government of putting the Brexit agreement “in jeopardy” and said unionist leaders in the North had “conflated” trading issues posed by Brexit with issues of unionist identity. “I think unfortunately for the unionist people, for that wider civic society, the unionist leaders have actually conflated the issue of the protocol and Brexit, a mess which they single-handedly delivered alongside their friends in the Tories,” she said.
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