I believe the provision in the agreement allows the secretary of state to call a referendum if he believes there is a clear majority in Northern Ireland who would vote to leave the UK. That isn't going to happen any time soon, despite what Lenny Verruca would like to believe.
Possibly more importantly, he and the EU have been constantly trying to use the Brexit process as an excuse to pull N.I. away from the UK by having it in a customs union with the R.O.I. / EU. in order, they claim, to preserve and protect the Good Friday peace agreement.
This is despite the fact that it would actually tear up that agreement and throw it in the bin, because the whole basis of the agreement is that the status of N.I. within the UK shall not be changed without the consent of the people of N.I.
We Brits are used to quite a high level of dishonesty and hypocrisy from our politicians, but the politicians in Dublin are on a whole different level altogether.
Hateful, two bob chancers, the lot of them.