"but shoppers in London or elsewhere were not"
Richard, couldn't agree more.
I'm not defending the killings on any side THEY ARE WRONG, but I am trying to understand what caused them and how the exercise can be avoided in future.
These arguments have made me read more on Irish history as well.
Suggest you try Mrs Cecil Woodham Smith's Great Hunger on the famine; a lot more complicated than than just capitalism and incompetence.
"Jim, every account describes large numbers of very young children,"
Suggest you read your own BBC report again Keith - it only mentions numbers of young children, doesn't say whether there were a dozen or a thousand - as does my Irish Times, the rest is all in your imagination.
"The priest, the police, Sinn Fein, every jornalist including those from BBC, Guardian and Irish times, all conspired to hide the truth."
I trust this is supposed to be ironic as the subject of this thread is about the involvement of a priest in a bombing campaign which was covered up by the police, the church and the British Government (Willie Whitelaw)
Of course, this MIGHT be an anomoly and the rest of the time they MIGHT all just tell the truth.
Jim Carroll