Writer Tóibín Colm: “A referendum on unity would not pass”

MAGHERAFELT – “We are witnessing the inevitable. But reunification, as Sinn Féin wants today, is almost impossible ». As well as being one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary writers, 66-year-old Colm Tóibín has walked the red lines of Northern Ireland like few others. In 1994 he wrote “Sangue Cattivo” (“Bad Blood”) recounting the “Troubles” and the civil war along the 500 km border, on foot and by taxi, between the two Irish.