Hallowed be their names, each and every one.

Sorcha - You are free to have your opinions, but if you would study the history and current situation your would realize that the IRA is not the problem. It is an entirely predictable response to the underlying problem of an aparthied statelet. For all practical purposes, the IRA laid down their arms in April of 1998. However, the British government, the RUC, and Unionists operating under a variety of aliases, continue murdering innocent people, burning, fire-bombing, beatings and other forms of terrorism. It's the very same sort of ethnic cleansing that most of the world railed against in the Balkans, but seems not to raise so much as a whimper against in Northern Ireland. The marvel is that the guns of the IRA have stayed silent. How long they can remain silent, while the people they have tried to protect continue to be terrorized by the established order, is the frightening question.