• LIKE people of Irish origin in Islington, I shall be interested to read Jeremy Corbyn’s and Emily Thornberry’s assessment of the internal Irish border aspects of the recent Brexit agreement.

There are no grounds for having an Irish border, anyway. Genetic maps of the British Isles show that Ireland as a whole is genetically homo­geneous. Nearly everybody there is Irish, apart from a few recent immigrants. The people of Northern Ireland are just as Celtic as those of Southern Ireland.

The referendum itself showed that the inhab­itants of Northern Ireland are only entitled to do what England, the far more populous part of the so-called United King­dom, wants them to do. It appears all parts of the UK are equal but one is more equal than the others.

All the reports are about the DUPers and their “supply and con­fidence” support of the Tory government. The DUPers are, just, the largest party in North­ern Ireland. But they are not the majority, represent­ing, as they do, a partic­ular school of Bible-bashers.

Ireland is one nation.

IVOR KENNA
Chair, England branch Celtic League