No Gary love, I think you’re getting a bit confused. 🤣 An open border isn’t a provision of the Good Friday Agreement. The arrangement you’re thinking of is the Common Travel Area, which predates the Agreement by decades.
As for your hard border wank fantasy, enjoy that one. 🤡
Ireland is Northern Ireland’s largest single export market, roughly a quarter of Northern Ireland’s external sales. 20k people cross the border daily for work, 7k for education, healthcare and business. Ireland provides specialist cancer care to thousands yearly that they can’t get it Northern Ireland.
And since immigration seems to be the point you’re really trying to make, as clueless as you are about the GFA and CTA figures suggest asylum applicants entering via Northern Ireland to Ireland at around 80–90%, 88% in 2025 and 90% in 2026. Don’t worry not many would pick NI over Ireland economically 🤡
So if your concern is immigration, that’s notreally anything to do planning for constitutional change under the Good Friday Agreement. It’s an entirely different discussion. Although a united island surrounded by sea no soft border would of course be much easier to manage immigration wise. ☺️😌
In other words, A hard border on this island is about as likely as me dancing the can can on the shores of Amsterdam when Scotland win the World Cup. 🤡🍀