Sir, – Mark Urwin (Letters, February 9th) takes issue with Keith Nolan (Letters, February 6th) who, when considering the merits of Irish reunification, had wondered why we would want them (our northern brothers and sisters). Mr Nolan wrote that there appears to be a presumption about the result of a reunification vote in our neck of the woods. In fact, that presumption features in the 1998 Belfast Agreement which acknowledged that “a substantial section of the people in Northern Ireland share the legitimate wish of a majority of the people of the island of Ireland for a united Ireland”. Of course, Mr Nolan could reasonably point out that that was then and this is now. – Yours, etc,
PAT O’BRIEN,
Crossmolina,
Co Mayo.