Your top stories on Thursday: All parties need to make ‘Irish unity pledge’; €1.4m cost of Leinster House security hut is ‘ridiculous’

Every party running in the next Dáil general elections should make manifesto pledges that Irish unification is “an objective, not an aspiration” and back the establishment of a New Ireland Forum to plan for it, former taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.
New ideas would have to be contemplated,e said, including, perhaps, having a president and a vice-president, where one of the offices would have to be held by a British citizen.
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