Well, not to be argumentative, there are 55 milion Irish in the US and what 2.4 2.5 in Ireland today? But that isn't the point, as MI 6 defector Frank Holroid always said, the war in Ireland had nothing to do with Ireland, it was a war created by Britain for the interest of NATO. I greave comepletely for the victems on all sides, but both sides where tricked into a war against their interests by the US government and the British Government, for the benifit of guarding the Scapa flow from the Soviet fleat, why do you think the bad guys are now the loyalists, what has changed? No more USSR and no more Irish nuetrality after NATO used Irish airbases for the gulf war. Noraid didn't sponcor the war, they were like all the rest, dupes of NATO, NATO not NORAID was the sponsor of the war, it was just another cold war battle.
Lets talk peace now, I don't care if the Afghanys and the IRA are of the same ilk in your view, I am more concerned that the conditions which lead to these evils are brought about by fundimentalist capitalism.
Slan, Larry