BREXIT: Best way to protect our country from dangers is through Irish Unity - MEP Matt Carthy

Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has told fellow MEPs that the border in Ireland is already too hard.

“The border has frustrated economic, social and political development in our country and it resulted in a conflict for which too many paid too high a price.

The Good Friday Agreement and our shared membership of the EU have, together, been the instruments that have allowed us to undo some of the damages of partition over the past two decades".

That is why Brexit has been such a dangerous development. It has risked our peace process and our all-Ireland economy.

Even the deal negotiated last week will create new problems relating to the border in Ireland. We support it because it is better than the alternative.

Of course, the best way to protect our country from the dangers of Brexit is through Irish Unity. The EU can play a role in supporting the peaceful, democratic pathway to that objective.

“I hope this house is ready and willing to be part of the big constitutional conversation coming our way” he concluded.

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