{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6155db9059a3fa00137f30a9/62ea30d96c3e4e0012932f6f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Is a united Ireland inevitable? ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6155db9059a3fa00137f30a9/1650571818674-3324038632dc175e0a3ac24db3404709.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>\"It is not a question of whether, but when and how Ireland will be united\", is the provocative opening argument made by author and journalist Frank Connolly in his recent book <em>United Nation: The Case for Integrating Ireland</em>. But he concedes it won't be easy.</p><p><br></p><p>The book explores the steps that would be necessary in advance of a border poll and the changes that unity would bring, North and South. He talked to Hugh Linehan about his book recently.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The Irish Times"}