I posted a few statistics to demonstrate the non-numerical point that the IRA far from being the the only dog in the fight

INLA and the various IRAs were responsible for more deaths than everyone else put together!

they did not even provoke the fight in the first place.

Yes they did. There was discrimination and repression in NI as in USA.
In both places it was dealt with peacefully by the Civil Rights movement and in NI the SDLP.
The IRAs achieved nothing but death.