Good man, Lorcan. At least you accept that most governments seem to be the same. Shame not everyone can see it is the administration rather than the people of a country that is most often at fault. By your own argument though there are also people who seem to believe that if you don't agree that Bobby Sands was a hero you are a bastard brit who would like nothing better than to enslave the world under the imperialist yoke once more. I don't think that either perspective is true.

What, by the way, do you think I am assuming so much about people here? I have not assumed anything, just pointed out that a thread about the troubles attracts more than double the contributions than a thread about peace attracted. I would rather people draw their own conclusions but mine is simply that people in general would rather talk about violence than peace. I find that very sad.

Good luck with your quest to educate us all anyway:-)

Cheers

Dave