"Ban Christmas! "
Pratt!
You don't come to Ireland (certainly not the South nor the trouble centres); you get your knowledge (sic) from selective dips into the net; and you lend your support to the religious/political fanatics and their triumphalistic marches that cause violence every year at the same time of year, so regular and predictable you could set your clocks by them ("The Glorious 12th already - where's me riot gear")
Violence here is once more on the increase despite your claims that it is a thing of the past - if it continues to grow it stands to wreck any moves towards peace and reconciliation.
The Derry/Belfast and a few other marches provoke violence - they always have and they always will while they take place in the violently aggressive manner that they do (and that you apparently support by claiming in your selective ignorance that violence is a thing of the past)
One minute you're saying the riots aren't taking place, the next, you've backpedalled and tell us they are - you can't even decide which particular line to peddle.
After the troubles of the 70s and 80s the people of the whole of Ireland became shell-shocked - all they wanted was peace - almost at any price.
That generation is being replaced by one that never experienced the bombing and the killing, and, if the politicians don't sort out the fanatics and their thuggish armchair eggers-on (like you) the consequences of the annual triumphalism will be that the generation coming up will will pay the price, - again, just as our generation paid, for the fanatics and their armchair thugs.
Go read a book if you can't get some understanding any other way.
As I said - pratt!
Jim Carroll