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Originally Posted by Hugh
The ‘consent freely given’ were the referendums on both sides of the border in 1998 - from Wikipedia.
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The "freely" bit shouldn't include the threats
at the time of IRA violence. Therefore technically the referendum result wasn't valid, or it wouldn't in any other country in the World.
2016.
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Enda Kenny, the Irish premier, has suggested guns that were supposed to have been “put beyond use” as part of the peace process are still in circulation and were used in a murder in Dublin last week.
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