The unification of the island of Ireland, “not the priority” of the next Irish Prime Minister. Simon Harris is due to be confirmed as prime minister by the Irish Parliament on Tuesday.
At 37, Simon Harris becomes, at 37, the youngest leader in the country's history. He succeeds Leo Varadkar, who resigned on March 20 to everyone's surprise, one year before the scheduled date of legislative elections. The Good Friday Agreement, which in 1998 ended three decades of bloody conflict over British sovereignty over Northern Ireland, is "one of the most successful peace processes in the world"