{"id":50416,"date":"2025-09-29T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50416\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:24:07","slug":"no-united-ireland-vote-before-2030-despite-unity-making-logical-sense-says-taoiseach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50416\/","title":{"rendered":"No United Ireland vote before 2030 despite unity making &#8216;logical sense&#8217;, says Taoiseach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taoiseach has said there will be no vote on a United <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/section\/2219\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ireland<\/a> before 2030, despite unity making &#8220;logical sense.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miche\u00e1l Martin says more has to be done before the country reaches that stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also believes the Good Friday Agreement has to &#8220;fill its potential&#8221; before any votes take place, according to The Journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says the Legacy Agreement, which aims to heal the hurt between Dublin and London created by the Norther Ireland Troubles Act, was only agreed last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis British government is working with us in a practical, open, transparent way, and we have a framework now to deal with legacy once and for all,&#8221; Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ireland-live.ie\/news\/national-news\/1905970\/the-first-televised-presidential-election-debate-is-live-tonight-here-s-how-to-watch-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The first televised Presidential election debate is live tonight \u2013 here&#8217;s how to watch it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He added that he didn\u2019t like the word \u201cborder poll\u201d but that it does makes &#8220;logical sense&#8221; to have unity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would unite the people of Ireland,&#8221; Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in have been known to advocate for a United Ireland before 2030, but the Taoiseach has said that won&#8217;t be possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Taoiseach says the party have been blowing &#8220;hot and cold&#8221; on the border issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey downgraded the border poll because they did their own opinion polls and focus groups, and they said it\u2019s not traveling,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Taoiseach has said there will be no vote on a United Ireland before 2030, despite unity making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1843,43,3415,15152],"class_list":["post-50416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-sinn-fein","tag-taoiseach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}