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Plenty don't, usually as they've no understanding of the complexities of the politics there and view it as a basket case. Plenty in ROI would be happy never to have a UI. But then again there are some who wish to rejoin the Commonwealth so...
I don't think that's fair, FG/FF will always bring up SF's past. They know who's pulling strings in the background, but the can't outright say it. The general public are tired of hearing "but SF did this...", so realistically, they have to address them on a policy level, which isn't easy when they've never been in power here. General consensus is that they like being in opposition as it's the easier role, and anyone who pays attention to NI politics here, knows they're really just more of the same.
Last election, if they'd been able to run more candidates, they would have won more seats, but considering news since then about their TDs and Cllrs, kidnap, money laundering, anti-vax, in-party bullying, they may have been best not running more nutters.