If Brexit forces a hard Irish border, the answer may be unity

A century after Ireland was divided, economic self-interest and modern values should speak louder than religion, ethnicity, marches, or long-ago battles.

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he is 'not going to agree to anything that would give rise to a hard border' between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit. Photograph courtesy of the European People's Party

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

July 11, 2018

Canadians and Americans are fond of great celebrations in July. However, in Northern Ireland, July is a time of tension, the “marching season” and the “Glorious Twelfth”—the commemoration by Protestants of the victory of King William of Orange over the Catholic James II at the Battle of th...

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