As an Englishman I look forward to NI joining with Ireland. There was never doubt in my mind that the Loyalists are a pack of bigoted thugs and that the Republicans were in the right - as far as I was concerned it was simply a matter of time before the IRA realised that murdering civilians for political ends doesn't work. Now that they have done so I think it's simply a matter of waiting a few generations, at the most, when the fact that Catholics have an unreasonable prejudice against little rubbery things will eventually seal the Loyalist's fate, even if political methods run into problems.