Oh, autonomy for NI might well be the best option, in some ways. I don't think it's a realistic option in the next 20 years, however. (20 just being some arbitrary number. Well, not entirely arbitrary, given that most of the front-liners in NI politics won't be front-liners then.)
If it stays part of the UK until some point in the future when the argument is not tub-thumping and passion but, rather, what's actually in NI's interests, it could go independent. If it becomes part of Ireland, I can't see it going back.
Being a Londoner now, it's difficult to comment properly on London vs the rest of the UK. London does get a hell of a lot more attention than the rest of the UK, for no good reason. When the whale got stuck in the Thames, a few people said at the time "If this had happened Oop North, the media wouldn't care." Then it happened up north a few days later. And no-one cared.
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If it stays part of the UK until some point in the future when the argument is not tub-thumping and passion but, rather, what's actually in NI's interests, it could go independent. If it becomes part of Ireland, I can't see it going back.
Being a Londoner now, it's difficult to comment properly on London vs the rest of the UK. London does get a hell of a lot more attention than the rest of the UK, for no good reason. When the whale got stuck in the Thames, a few people said at the time "If this had happened Oop North, the media wouldn't care." Then it happened up north a few days later. And no-one cared.