Hi Mick long time no hear.

I thought this thread was long dead, (old threads never died, they just smell that way). The purpose of the original question was to make shore that I would not get it wrong and upset some one. As this is a very dialect subject

On the BA in the north. If you have wolves bothering your sheep so you get a pack of Rotviller's to keep the wolves away you should not be surprised when the dog do more damage than the wolves. Now are the dogs to blame for being dog? Or The IDIOTS who gave them the job.

Soldiers are trained to fight in wars (well in the 1960's) not to be policemen. As for the Para's like all Parachute troops they are trained to be shock troops and are ment to be like letting a pit-bull of the lead That is why we have an army & a policeforce. It is very dangerous to swap them round.

And as Big Mick & Big Tim have both said so well, The people of Ireland have spoken it is up to us all to listen. The time is for jaw, jaw not war, war, with a lot of hear, hear as well.

I have a lot of friends in both the north and the south, from a former standard bearer with the orange order to second generation I.R.A. and all stops in-between and the one and only thing they agree on is it is time for a peaceful solution to the problem. The gun and the bomb are not NOW the solution. As a Dublin friend said to me "we all have Irish Alzheimer's disease, we forget every thing but the grudges"

Max If this thread makes it for another 18 months can we give it a Birthday party.

Síocháin agus maithiúnas. All the best Ferret