This is OT, I realise, but, as a Northern Prod sympathetic to Irish reunification, I'd love to think that you're right, but I fear that you might not be. The GFA was a great achievement, but it was largely an exercise in kicking the can down the road, of putting off the hard questions until the scars of which you speak could hopefully heal. As both the UK and Ireland were EU members, the border ceased to have any real relevance, and cross-border trade disappeared into the stratosphere. And then came the idiocy of Brexit, which forced it back on to everyone's consciousness. It has reopened all the old wounds of the past and all the old Unionist battle cries are again to be heard. The potential for real nastiness is again upon poor Norn Iron, and from Unionist/Loyalist groups that make the IRA at its worst look like a Sunday school picnic. And Truss, like Johnson, will no doubt sell the Unionists down the river again. In a way, sinn féin is a motto for the Unionists - I think they think that, when the chips are down, it really is ourselves alone - and that spells trouble.
