We disagree.
Melanie Phillips, a journalists with The Times in London, trending at the moment after she claimed in an article that Ireland has a "tenuous claim to nationhood."
Phillips' claim that Ireland is not a proper country and should be leaving the EU as part of Britain has drawn a lot of, let's say, exercised responses on social media.
She wrote: "Does that mean that Westminster should tear up the Good Friday agreement and bid farewell to Northern Ireland? No, because it has an obligation to the Unionists; and because the claim to unite Ireland is tenuous since Ireland itself has a tenuous claim to nationhood, having seceded from Britain as the Irish Free State only in 1922."
She went on...
"Britain, by contrast, is an authentic unitary nation."
Needless to say, her words have made her very unpopular on this side of the Irish Sea.
https://twitter.com/gavinsblog/status/839051655228309504
https://twitter.com/GerryHassan/status/839044141308915712
https://twitter.com/RedcliffeScott/status/839069996034600960
https://twitter.com/mrsanderzisin/status/839058551431659521
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/839051939484692480
