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Have your say: Share your views on our North and South research project

We invite readers to share their views on the project which sought to examine attitudes about the future of the island, and the likely outcomes of any Border polls.

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Have your say on our North and South research project. Illustration: Paul Scott
Tue Jan 31 2023 - 05:00

This week sees the conclusion of our North and South research project – a collaboration between The Irish Times and ARINS [Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South], which is a joint research project of the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

We now invite readers to share their views on the project which sought to examine attitudes about the future of the island, and the likely outcomes of any Border polls.

Please let us know your predictions for the future of Ireland.

A full archive of all articles in the series is available here North and South - The Irish Times

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The project consisted of two major in-depth opinion polls conducted simultaneously in Northern Ireland and the Republic, and also a series of focus groups which aimed to tease out the issues in moderated discussions. It is jointly funded by The Irish Times and ARINS. Previous results were published in December.

The aim of the project is to provide independent and unbiased information on the state of public opinion in both jurisdictions on the constitutional future of the island, on what influences the views of people, how they might change in the future and what a united Ireland – if it were ever to happen – might look like. The survey and focus groups also examine the state of relations between people in the two parts of the island.

The questionnaire for the surveys and focus groups were drawn up after extensive discussions between The Irish Times and Prof Brendan O’Leary of the University of Pennsylvania and Prof John Garry of Queen’s University Belfast, as well as other academics associated with the ARINS project. The research was conducted by Ipsos Northern Ireland in the North and separately by Ipsos in Dublin in the Republic. The quantitative survey was conducted among more than 1,000 voters each in both jurisdictions.