"ALL the paramilitaries in Ireland should have left it to the Civil Rights Movement in 1969"
Pehaps if the NI authorities had listened to the genuine grievences of the Nationalists, rather than allowing the police to baton charge them and then force the C R marches where they could be attacked (all on record - and we watched it from the comfort of our armchairs, on the telly!) none of this would have happened, or at least not to the extent it did. The history of Ireland is one of grievences being met with force by the administration.
The situation today has been arrived at by the disputing parties being bombed to the conference table and there are still the "No Surrender" nutters, out on the streets at the present time, who would be happy to see any move towards unification steamrollered out of existance.
Jim Carroll