Interestin'. I heard Dai to mean Irish Republican Army (IRA) and I thought the first US response was being funny. HOwever I'm starting to feel ashamed that we don't know about other Republicans, who are very different from our George Bush Jr and Dan Quayle folks.
And Dai is also right that a lot of the financial support for the IRA comes from the US where ex-pat Irishmen, with romantic ideas about the IRA have tupperware parties to raise money to send them guns.
There ya go, that ought to get the discussion going strong.
Blessings,
Barbara