Home rule a century ago would have sorted Brexit

IT IS ironic that an Englishman, Dominic Shelmerdine, should advocate “Irish re-unification” (Letters, July 2).

The Border was imposed more than a century ago by the most powerful parliament in the world which at the time was governing a quarter of the population of the globe from London.

That imperial parliament imposed the Border despite the fact it had passed an act giving self-rule to the island of Ireland with the capital in Dublin.

If the most powerful parliament in the world had implemented it then life would have been much simpler since and there would be no need for reunification now.

In addition, Brexit would be much simpler.

A Leavy

Shielmartin Drive, Sutton, Dublin