We buried our cousin some years ago. With full honours, flag, and firing party. Only a poor squaddy. The coffin was full of bits of corpse, and a sand bag to make up the weight. His death ?, trying to clear a shoping area of Belfast before a reported car bomb went off.

The warning was late, he was standing next to the nondescript car when the explosion happened.

His wife was 5 month pregnant when he died.

I am mature enough not to hold the Irish people guilty for the crimes of the few, but please don't make the mistake of confusing terrorists with heros.