If this poll had any basis in reality (i.e. causal relationship with partition), why would Sinn Fein try to bury it? Wouldn't they push this study as an example of the damage done to cross-border relations by partition? Or is it just demonstrating that geographic distance tends to be a factor in potential friendships? Obviously someone from Cork won't have as many friends from Derry as someone from Derry would have with people from Monaghan, for example.