Things are slowly changing in ni, politics is beginning to be defined just a bit in terms of left and right, rather than unionist and Republican. Older conservative Catholics are more in tune with the DUP on abortion and gay marriage than Sinn Féin.
It's still a very tribal sort of place, I wouldn't recommend walking down the Falls Road with a Union Jack or strolling up the Shank hill with a Tricolor, but it's a vastly different place that it was at the end of the Troubles
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