If you want to see it as a stick to beat the IRA that is your prerogative. But do not trivialise the fact that people are afraid to return, or how many there are expelled, it was after all the IRA who said to these people they would get punished/murdered if they returned, no time limit, so by all means it can happen in the future. What are you saying the IRA are no accountable for their actions?

No one has lifted the threat so in real terms the IRA are still a threat to these people,it is them who used the threat of violence in the future to enforce their laws. And incase your that sensitive the loyalists do it also that does not make any of it right.

If the threat is not serious why did the man approach McGuiness outside Westminster asking for help in getting the expulsion order to be lifted on him,if the threat of violence was not real why did he not fly home on the same flight with McGuiness.

McGuiness has on numerous occasions denied membership of the IRA.