Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams calls for a United Ireland referendum and poll on border

Seano. Polls might as well change on the basis of "who had what for breakfast" theres so little going on from anyone in politics that will benefit the most needy in society.

barneyjo the latest Irish Times poll give Sinn Fein 20% of the vote Fianna Fail 21% Fein Gael 34% and the labour party 12% Enda is the most popular leader followed by Gerry. Get some facts and stop dreaming.

The whole country is being strangled economically and Gerry lets on, he wants a poll and referendom that would cost millions whilst people are going hungry. Wouldn`t be so bad only every one knows how bad the result would be for SF. Any thing these days to have his impression of being a republican maintained. Those statements go over well in the USA where the 2 words "united Ireland" always raise the blood pressure. Never mentions the Socialist Democratic Republic anymore though. The word socialist never went down well in the USA. Remember Bernadett Devlin. Come to think of it, they don`t mention the same word here anymore in their litrature.

seamus is right on in his analysis. Please do a poll tomorrow, next year or on Easter Monday 2016 the result will be a resounding 'no'. Quick translation of 'living together as equals' for our American readers: = Socialism!

Just how naieve can some people be, talking about birth rates etc. Catholics in the North have always been defined as wanting unification. Upper class Catholics are every bit as likely to want to remain part of the UK as their class on the Protestant side. The poor Catholics on the Falls would always have wanted unification in the hope of being treated as equals. How many of them have changed their opinion after a spell of who they were pinning their hopes on treating them as they always have been, now that they share power.

Searlit, its further away now than when that photo was taken. Won`t matter anyway as it won`t be anywhere near the united Ireland Adams and Mc Guinness have always talked about, the one all the volunteers died for. Internment , Gerrymandering and the likes were only things the great brit oppressor done. The times they have a changed. Just more ruling by fooling.

It seems the day is not far off, now, when Ireland will be united. Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if it were to happen during the Gathering of the diaspora? I still have my Irish Independent newspaper that I bought at the airport before flying back home. It was September 26, 2005. The front page headline was "IRA lay down arms" with a large picture of Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams, all smiles. I was filled with hope and still am.

Gerry wants a border poll as much as he wants a truth commission, both would bring him on in a very bad light. But hey theres nothing like the odd wee statement to continue the pretence of being a republican in a republican party. His party had the opportunity to block new austerity measures on the people of the North only last week. Yet they didn`t.

@pilibox4 - No just an interested observer reading polls that are carried out by various sources, and published in the media, same as everybody else. In this case the Irish Independent and the Irish Times, among others!! A case of "a plague on all their houses"

@pilibox4 - No just an interested observer reading polls that are carried out by various sources, and published in the media, same as everybody else. In this case the Irish Independent and the Irish Times, among others!!

barneyjo, do you just post this stuff right from your brain or do you have a source for your statistics?

If Scotland is going to vote, certainly there is no problem with Ireland doing the same.

Latest opinion polls in ROI show a major fall off in the approval ratings for all political parties and their leaders. Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams have taken the biggest hit; his personal approval rating is down by nine percentage points compared with an average 3-3.5% for other party leaders. Where now??

That would be amazing.

Adams is correct a united Ireland is fiscally the best way forward. The doubling up on politicians in the north the waste of community finances(police etc. A strong case could be put to all the Irish that a united Ireland is financially the best way forward. The present problem of religious bigotry is fading and a new trust will emerge.Go for it Gerry!!