Teribus... A United Ireland is just around the corner. You know it and I know it.
Names are unimportant, except to say that every Volunteer who took an Oath of Allegiance knows that they might be killed in pursuit of that. Anyone who has, has given his/her life for the greater good of that United Ireland.

My question to you, basically was "Was it worth every British life"

Keith, Keith, Keith...., what are we to do about you?
(... Rhetorical...!!!!)

You would have us believe that prior to 2001, SF had never topped the SDLP vote.
Do you remember that Danny Morrison got elected to the British Parliament

IN 1982

, on the mandate that he would not even take his seat!
In a straight run-off between Nationalist and Unionist the previous year, Bobby Sands was elected MP.

Only scum, Ginger, collude to keep a bad situation worse.
At certain times from '69 to the final IRA ceasefire there had been many moves made under our radar to come to some agreement.
You seem to think the Struggle took place in a vacuum.
Ted Heath met the IRA, for instance. We had Sunningdale, etc.

What normally knocked these talks off the rails was the often-referred to DTB - Dirty Tricks Brigade.
The latest revelations confirm its existence.

Now, if these 'units' could stir the old pot at the drop of a hat, what real chance was there of anything positive or progressive happening, when there was one side constantly trying to throw a spanner in the works, whenever some light seemed to appear at the end of the tunnel.

Only scum do that