Robinson ‘wrong on united Ireland’
DUP leader Peter Robinson was wrong to say that his party has forced republicans to abandon hopes of an united Ireland by 2016, Ulster Unionist deputy leader Danny Kennedy has said.
Mr Robinson told a meeting in Cookstown last week: “Nobody is boasting about Irish unification by 2016 anymore.”
But Mr Kennedy said that was wrong and that Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, had recently said he looked forward to the possibility of a united Ireland within five years.
Mr Kennedy said: “This is what Mr McGuinness said on April 10: ‘I am working towards the possibility that Ireland could be unified by 2014. Important steps can be made in the life of this Assembly, but even more importantly, in the life of the next Assembly.’
“I am astonished that Peter Robinson is able to keep a straight face when he tells DUP members that ‘republicans aren’t boasting about Irish unification by 2016 anymore’.”
