We're not remotely anti-Irish: we're both British, English, Northern Lanky (by adoption). We go to Ireland often, love the country and have never found anything there but open arms from the Irish.

We know little about the tensions in the North: in general it seems to be absent in the South where we visit. We would like to see a peaceful settlement that leaves all those in the North feeling that there has been a fair and just outcome.

The threads that occur here sometimes seem counter productive: it's easy to find bitterness and hard to relinquish it.

Stu