DUP have increased the likelihood of Irish unity — Joe Brolly

Allan Barton: I am really interested in Joe’s take on this and I would pose the question, has the GAA and its hierarchy (and members) suddenly become an all embracing welcoming warm house for the Protestant population of Ulster?

Steven Mcgivern: The chances of an united Ireland went further back when the RIC commemoration was rejected by republicans. A massive own goal.

Gordon Alcorn: A cold house for Catholics he said... well the GAA is certainly a cold house for Protestants.

Andrew Cee: The DUP have done more to further the united Ireland debate than any person or organisation on the nationalist/ republican side.

Pat Curran: There must be plenty of good stories of where Protestants and Catholics helped each other and stayed good friends. We are always hearing the bitter stuff.

JW Roulston: He makes sense. DUP is mean, hard and foolish.

Derek Hanna: It might have happened if Sinn Fein had not been so full of anti-British hatred.

Robbie McNeill: Who is he and what constituency does he represent?

Matt Geary: It’s sad but true. I’ve been saying for years, and I’m a unionist, the quickest way to Irish unification, isn’t SF, isn’t nationalism... it’s intransigent backward loyalists.

Al Daly: Rubbish, tell me this then, how did you become a barrister Joe? No barriers to you or thousands of other Catholics getting educated well above many Protestants. The population of the most affluent area in Belfast — the Malone Road — is 75% Catholic; no poor downtrodden

Catholics there, as stated in this very paper a few years ago.

Keith Dunwoodie: What Brolly lays out is basically what most nationalists have been thinking for years. At this point Irish unity can’t be stopped.

Mairead Mac Caba: You want a united Eire off the backs of our dead-dying country? Shame on you. How about a united Northern Ireland for starters and take it from there.