Long before the present troubles the six counties was a poverty stricken area,
It was always completely ignored by the Britsh Government, widespread discrimination and gerrymandering was rife,while the Nationalists kept their nose to the ground and remained peaceful that suited the London rulers, and nothing was done for this fag-end of the British Empire.
The only movement there has been towards correcting the poverty and unemployment here was made when the EC came into force, so Gareth we are better off now than we were before the present conflict. Ard Mhacha.