Teribus, I think you know that I remember Bloody Friday.
Coded warnings rendered useless by numerous coded hoax warnings.
(We are seeing coded hoaxes again from the dissidents.)

The revulsion created by that did the Republicans a lot of harm and they did nothing like it again.
Innocent deaths tended to be reckless incompetence thereafter, while AL Q supporters are only interested in a big body count of innocent people and even children.

Also there are no negotiables with Al Q.

Without defending IRA, they are different.