Sinn Féin MEP Matt Carthy has criticised comments made by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar which the Carrickmacross politician said sought to cast doubt as to whether a 50%-plus-one vote in the north in favour of unity would be sufficient to secure a United Ireland.
Mr Carthy was speaking after An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the BBC Spotlight programme that he wouldn’t like to see constitutional change ‘on a 50% plus one basis’. The MEP, who chairs his party’s United Ireland project team, said: “Leo Varadkar is legally wrong to seek to …