It saddens me to read people referring to such a place as "Northern Ireland", as if it were a separate place and not the north OF Ireland, which it is.

People are talking about terrorist bombs being terrorist bombs, no matter what...

Let me ask you: If you had a rapist or murderer in your house who somehow managed to secret himself in the house in such a way as to be very difficult to root out, would YOU allow yourself to be called a terrorist if you finally just dynamited the bastard out?

Didn't think so.

Why, then, are the people of Ireland made to accept the rule of an invader, no matter how long that invader may have been there?

The answer I would give to an intruder, especially one who sought to retain control over my person and goods by force, would be, "get the fuck out", whether I was saying to them 5 seconds or 100 years after their arrival.

I agree that there are more peaceable ways to end the conflict than bombs and guns, but there are no ways at all to end the conflict without ridding the NATION OF IRELAND, the WHOLE beautiful nation, of its problem: occupation by a hostile force.

When boyhood's fire was in my blood
I read of ancient freemen,
For Greece and Rome who bravely stood,
Three hundred men and three men;
And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be.
A Nation once again!