I find it laughable that most people who rant on about the IRA and other random Irish politics have never lived here and know very little about what kind of effect the groups in the North have on the daily lives of people from both religions and backgrounds. I have a feeling this little guest is a Plastic Paddy with too much time and too many fiction novels. I don't want the united counties, we can't afford to "own" the North and really don't want it. The people there now are a country of their own, hardly completely English or Irish at all and should probably better left to their *own* devices.

Victoria McDonnell Galway, Ireland Lover of Trad.