Rich, that is exactly what I mean by "fall back on the perceptual reality that they live in". But even your comment denies the basic tenet that is at the root of the entire conflict. This is the last vestige of British Colonialism, complicated by a group with a vested self interest in maintaining the status quo, further complicated and twisted by generational hatred towards the "papist" religion. Its roots are further tainted by economics that are changing.

Mick