It would have been idiotic if I had suggested that intercommunity tensions and discriminations had been swept away.
I did not.
The situation had been addressed with robust antidiscrimination legislation though.
The Dublin government could have done no better. Did you not tell us that a public librarian could be sacked for being a protestant under them?

There were significant numbers of Catholics in RUC in early seventies, and the antidiscrimination laws would have ensured that more would join.
It was PIRA that made RUC a protestant organisation by ordering Catholics to leave!
The brave ones who defied them were murdered in their own homes.

As you say " Shooting was the preferred method for murdering, as it was less indiscriminate."
So the children saw their father's violent deat and were spattered with his bloody brains, but were unharmed. Right?