Jim Carroll - 26 May 16 - 12:11 PM

The REALITY though Carroll is that THREATS are one thing ACTION entirely another. Now you tell us all who it was of the two groups who formed in 1913 and who armed in 1914 actually used their weapons against the people of Ireland - not ONCE but three times in the following eight years and caused the deaths of roughly 6,500 people - Give you a hint Carroll - it wasn't the Unionists. THREATS one thing ACTION another entirely.

The magnificent seven rose on that Easter Week-end for an independent united Ireland - truth is that 100 years on plus, almost 10,000 Irish lives have been needlessly lost and the "men of the gun" have ensured that that goal of a united independent Ireland is further away now than it was on the 23rd April 1914 - Haven't they done well.

Now instead of ranting and frothing at the mouth you calmly put down in writing what you think the prospects are for the attainment of a united Ireland are today and when you think that it will happen. My assessment is that it is still a very long way off - if ever, and that is what was won by the seven men who forced the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 and if you laud their efforts, then accept what their actions wrought - a permanently partitioned land, because that is the reality of today.