North and South

North-South trade has grown rapidly, but more could be done to turn the Dublin Belfast Economic Corridor into a powerhouse, a conference has heard

Unification could sever North’s ties to Nato and Commonwealth, but Belfast Agreement provides for maintaining British–Irish links

Most voters, North and South, say British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference should remain in place

Northern unionists are far more likely to be anti-immigration compared with their nationalist counterparts, while southern nationalists sit somewhere in between

SF voters in South resemble Northern unionists in attitudes to immigration

Expectations of positive feelings are more prevalent than negative ones

Most identify as British and would find Irish unity ‘almost impossible to accept’

Unity vote: Asked what would be their emotional response to a referendum which voted for unity, 27 per cent of Protestant voters in the North said they would hate it “extremely” or very much. Photograph: Getty

The island seems set for a period of incremental change, dialogue and debate rather than dramatic constitutional change

Voters are able to distinguish between wanting something to happen and planning for it to

More than a third of voters in South say it is extremely important to plan for a possible united Ireland

The South has no hesitation saying yes to unity – as long as it doesn’t cost any money or involving changing a flag or an anthem

Voters in Republic at odds with those in North who say a united Ireland should belong to both organisations

North’s Protestants strongly favour membership of the Europe-North America military alliance in event of Irish unity

Surveys and deliberative forums examine the state of public opinion in the Republic and Northern Ireland

Northern Protestants remain overwhelmingly against unity but show growing losers' consent

While unity vote would be soundly defeated in North a growing number of unionists support the holding of a border poll

Prof Mary C Murphy, the new head of Boston College’s Irish Institute, says there’s nothing good to say about the ‘hugely destabilising’ Brexit period

These are not harmless notions to drop into public discourse from the top of an ivory tower. Everyone involved should take more care

The united Ireland conversation involves listening to people who don’t agree with you and whose advice you don’t want to hear

Ireland’s Future outlines in a discussion paper proposals to ‘prepare the ground’ for the next six years

Officials on both sides of the Border have been complicit in failure to deliver the necessary but controversial overground interconnector

Recent polling shows that attitudes to the flag remain deeply divided

We examined attitudes to potential Irish unity and related issues in the Republic and Northern Ireland

Poll reveals sharp fissures and in some instances a resistance to compromise

How the question is framed makes little difference to voters in the South, who oppose including them on coinage of a united Ireland

Survey finds that the way in which the question is posed has a significant impact on responses

Findings suggest views about the flag are somewhat entrenched, and may be hard to change

The findings of a survey on the shamrock and the Irish Tricolour pose interesting challenges to advocates of unification

Hostility softens depending on how the question is framed. That will matter in the debate on unity

The North and South series consists of two major, in-depth opinion polls conducted simultaneously in Northern Ireland and the Republic

Findings show that some apparently hardline positions could be open to change among some voters

Strength of hostility depends on how Commonwealth is described in polling question, suggesting views in the South could be open to change

Donald Clarke: Reunification will come, but Romulan annexation may come first

The South is not ready to welcome the North into a costly and pluralist new state. But nothing is set in stone

Irish Times/ARINS surveys asked respondents North and South to consider reform of the presidency to create more inclusivity in a united Ireland

Irish Times research shows voters from Protestant background in North unlikely to identify as European

Survey finds two-thirds of Protestants feel ‘not at all’ European, unlike many southerners

Southerners are divided on potential changes to the Irish flag or national anthem, while northerners are twice as likely to agree as disagree to changes

To provide information on the state of public opinion in both jurisdictions on the constitutional future of the island