Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness shake hands for the first time

A common heritage me thoin - bah! humbug. Planted ones, by Saxon occupier as against natives who were forced from their lands. Proddi folks now view themselves as Zionists. It'll be their way or the highway as they serve to maintain an important Saxon symbol need for an ancestry ie., harp representative of Ireland on crown flags/standard. The loss of an entity called Ireland would be akin to removing the hammer and sickle symbols from across the commonwealth. Worse than that the impacts across the usa, canada, australia, new zealand, falklands, so africa band such. An impact like this would diminish all who cleave to mother. The symbolic quadrant of UK countries that we may observe on buildings, medals, coins etc..... gone, left with a trinity of England, Wales and Scotland. This would be the effect were there ever an island of Ireland allowed to break free.

With the disaster in Haiti, the Irish church imploding, Iris Robinson's life in turmoil, it's time to show (and be gracious enough to accept) a little human kindness. As am Irish nationalist, I have long believed that the most common ground I have with Unionists is our common heritage and the ground beneath our feet.