Mary Lou McDonald: “Engagement across society was at the heart and the core of planning for unity.”

The future of Ireland is for the people of this island to decide, and for the people of this island alone.

There will be a referendum. Our objective is to secure that by the year 2030 but the referendums will happen and the preparations need to be made now.

time [was] of the essence

Without a public inquiry, the full circumstances of the disaster may never be established.