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ADVOCATES of a united Ireland should be prepared to consider radical new proposals such as a role for the British monarch; allowing the national parliament to sit in Belfast; and electing members to a reformed British House of Lords, Fine Gael TD/MEP, Gay Mitchell, has argued.
Calling for a "new broad form of inclusive nationalism", Mitchell asked whether the majority community in the Republic was truly nationalist.
"Or are a good number of us really partitionists because facilitating a united Ireland would be discomfiting?" he said.
If people wanted Northern unionists to give up electing members to the House of Commons, Mitchell asked whether "part of the island" could elect members to a reformed House of Lords who would take a special interest in Anglo-Irish issues.
"Without diminishing the office of the President of Ireland, what role would we be prepared to consider for the British Monarch?
Mitchell made his comments earlier this month in a previously unreported Dail speech, 'What Kind of Ireland?'
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