You are far from even handed Nickhere.

You don't have to go back to the reformation to find a time when the Roman Catholic Church had strange views on contraception and divorce. Furthermore these ideas were adhered to in Ireland in a fundamentalist way that they weren't adhered to in other Catholic countries - France, Germany, or Catholic communities in America. And they were held onto longer than in very catholic countries like Spain and Italy.

Small wonder some people had qualifications in their mind at getting involved. I'm sure you will say - it was never about that. Let me assure you it couldn't have helped.

You can't blame the protestant community for the UVF any more than you can blame Germans for the Nazis. We have a BNP councillor in our village - no one knows what to do about it. He wasn't elected - he just spotted a loophole in the electoral system - there were so many seats on the council and not enough people stood. the first thing we knew about it was when it made fromt page of the local papers.

Extremists have a way of getting through.