Well said jimmy and Guest above. You know its laughable to read the musings of all the pseudo intellects around here. Clapping each other on the back for another fine observation on the goings on in the wee six counties of Ireland. Oh they're in such a mess, sure they can't help themselves you know and we're so superior sitting here at our safe distance with all the solutions (no doubt) to all the problems. Fuck off! Let me tell you something Pookie you think we're in a mess. Well if your president has his way you ain't seen mess. So brother try looking for the plank in your own eye. Oh and Ireland, the voice of reason, the experienced soldier. Were you a Brittish soldier by any chance? If so, how could you have an objective view? Your job was to occupy and maintain the Status Quo. A protestant parliament for a protestant people, isn't that the way it went Ireland? So most of the views and observations expressed here are based on what exactly. Hearsay, or that paragon of truth the good old Brittish media. Did any of you live in Ballymurphy or Ardoyne? How about Tiger Bay? Were you there Ireland. When the Brits allowed gangs of loyalists and the RUC to burn catholics out of their homes. Have any of you lived in N.Ireland? Do any of you know what its like to be a second class citizen in your own country. No I don't think so. Bottom line is the current crop of Unionists don't want, never wanted power sharing. Its been one thing after another to disrupt the process sice day one. Now they want the IRA to disband. Right that would take us back to 1969.