Northern Ireland has never been occupied. This is a key-phrase used by extremist Irish Republicans who consider it to be occupied.
It is a part of the United Kingdom of its own free will, and a referendum held in the 1970s combined with frequent surveying to this day confirm its citizens' wish to remain a part of the UK.
It actually has more right than England, Scotland or Wales to leave the UK (due to the Belfast Agreement).
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