What possible motive for discrediting the republican movement could the English government possibly have. the sooner the various beliefs in Northern Ireland learn to live peaceably together - the sooner we can stop paying for the place to be policed by soldiers.

Sinn fein sitting down at the table with the Unionists and sorting your problems out together is the solution every bloody politician apart from half witted Maggie Thatcherites, would love to deliver.

look at the public reverence for Mo Mowlam cos she got it part right.

Presumably the powers that be have their sources of information about the bank job - however who knows perhaps the IRA have weapons of mass destruction as well - but presumably the government is acting on intelligence received.

I used to give guitar lessons to an Irish guy. really nice chap, but not your brand of patriot, Curator.

It was the time of the Falklands and he said to me if you will fight for a dump like the Falklands why won't you fight for part of your own country. i explained most of us don't consider it part of our country.

You call your IRA an army and declare us to be at war periodically. Don't you know that in a war people get hurt. If you call up a situation where there are rubber bullet guns around. Obviously people will get hurt....kiled even.

Sort out your problems curator, with your own countrymen and then the soldiers wouldn't be there.

You have a very moderate government in power in England at the moment and you are wasting the opportunity. God knows the rules will change if Howard and his gang of right wing arseholes win the next election.

Bugger it, I've broken my own rule. I swore I wasn't going to waste my energy talking about this subject again.

All you ever get back is :-

two legs good, four legs bad (bleat! bleat!)