Brexit is helping to deliver the sense of an ending for Northern Ireland as we know it, says the Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole
has never been normal. It was created to ensure one overwhelming imperative: to allow as many Protestants as possible to stay in the UK and exclude themselves from the emerging Irish state. Its border was drawn to create an area in which Protestants would have a permanent majority – which meant, of course, that its Catholic population would form a permanent minority.
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