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John Manley: Is there a realistic prospect of a border poll by the end of the decade?

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Sinn Féin’s Declan Kearney isn’t downbeat, pointing to the “new vista of opportunities” emerging across the island.

But Colum Eastwood , who has always been loath to put a timeframe on a border poll because “we end up in the wrong arguments”.

Andrée Murphy of Ireland ’s Future believes we have seen the “legitimacy and the normalisation of the constitutional debate” since.

She is reluctant to rule out a referendum by the decade's end and believes we’ll see dates and conversations about dates happening within that within this term of the next government”.