"We have an honest decent Irish guy who has explained time after time the true facts of the situation in Ireland."

Errrrrmmm, I think you'll find he's English by birth (although perhaps of Irish ancestry, if my memory serves me correctly). Not arguing with the rest of your summation though, ositojuianito.

But....isn't this thread, and others like it, a perfect illustration of the real problem - people with their heads on backwards, huffing and puffing and bickering interminably ad nauseam about what's past and done and can't be undone no matter how much they'd like it to be, instead of looking towards what's to be done in the days, months and years to come in order to bring about justice for all and a lasting peace?

And these entrenched attitudes and pointless arguments are precisely why there isn't real peace in Ireland, and IMHO little hope of it.