• OVER the last few months, because of Brexit the Irish government has called for a realignment of the Irish/British border down the Irish Sea, thus creating an All-Ireland economy, which in my view would be a United Ireland in all but name.

Has anyone in government, either in Dublin or London or even the Democratic Unionist Party, sat down and worked out the economic impact of an All-Ireland economic structure if Northern Ireland was absorbed into what would amount to a United Ireland?

Could the Republic of Ireland afford the £10billion or so a year it takes to run Northern Ireland without international aid from Britain, Europe or even America? From a purely economic point of view would it not make more sense for the Republic of Ireland to rejoin the United Kingdom.

JAMES ANNETT
Popular Unionist, N7