http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/articles/why_ireland_should_rejoin_the_commonwealth Comments for "Why Ireland should rejoin the Commonwealth, Conn Corrigan " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/articles/why_ireland_should_rejoin_the_commonwealth <p> The biggest mistake Irish republicans ever made says former Irish rugby star <a href="http://www.sporting-heroes.net/rugby-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1215" target="_blank">Trevor Ringland</a>, was that &quot;they never asked.&quot; Ringland, the sports spokesman for the <a href="http://www.uup.org/" target="_blank">Ulster Unionist Party</a> (UUP), likes saying this to his southern Irish friends to explain unionist objections to a <a href="http://unitedirelander.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">united Ireland</a>. And worse than not asking, Ringland says, is that the &quot;only method used to persuade unionists of the benefits of a united Ireland was violence.&quot; </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/articles/why_ireland_should_rejoin_the_commonwealth" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/articles/why_ireland_should_rejoin_the_commonwealth">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/articles/why_ireland_should_rejoin_the_commonwealth#comment Conn Corrigan Creative Commons normal ourkingdom ourkingdom Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:01:28 +0000 35533 at http://www.opendemocracy.net