You need to remember that the struggle was not one between religious groups bu on of National Self Determination and just as some Catholics were happy to stay as part of Britain, just as many Protestants wished to Govern themselves as Irish
The set-up may have worked as a temporary measure if the question of religion had not been introduced into the equation by The Covenant
Finishes with this Keith until you start arguing on the basis of history and not from a pro-establishment English point of view
Jim Carroll