Inconvenient facts for some. 1998 Belfast Agreement provides for two constitutional options for Northern Ireland: it is either fully part of the United Kingdom or fully part of a United Ireland. There is no third option in which NI is somehow half in each. NI is not...
some kind of hybrid state. It follows therefore that amy form of so-called 'Joint Authority' over NI between London and Dublin would be fundamentally inconsistent with the 1998 Agreement and the principle of consent at its heart.
The 1998 Agreement provides a democratic mechanism for constitutional change should that be the wish of a majority. It does not provide that one of the options for change is Joint Authority.
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