The situation today has been arrived at by the disputing parties being bombed to the conference table Jim Carroll

No Jim no-one was "bombed to the conference table" as you put it. Martin McGuinness has stated that by 1985 the PIRA had been fought to a standstill and the leadership fully realised that they were never going to achieve anything by force of arms, they realised that whatever they wanted to achieve would only be achieved politically. It took him and Gerry Adams a further ten years to convince the rank and file which resulted in what became known as the Good Friday Agreement and a further 12 years before the PIRA decommissioned their weapons and disbanded.

Throughout Ireland in the referendum that followed an overwhelming majority of the people in Ireland demonstrated with absolute clarity that violence had no part in politics in the island of Ireland and that killed once and for all time any claim any Republican or Loyalist group had to a mandate from the people to bomb or murder for any political cause.

I would be interested to hear from Richard Bridge why if he thinks the IRA won the "Real" IRA are still fighting.

That Roman Catholic Priests aided and abetted terrorists and even directed their activities should come as no surprise to anyone who served over there, as someone else has pointed out.