Sorry Robo
You appear not to understand the situation Ireland is in at present - not past battles, but a chance that the 1970s will kick off all over again if the border becomes visible
It's not just a case of opening old wounds but the hardship that is likely to cause on both sides of the border, and the effect that is likely to have on the Good Friday Agreement
Irish people tend to get on - pretty well with everybody, but certainly with each other
Britain seems set fair to bung a viciously sectarian party another lump of the taxpayers money in order to make the unacceptable possible and is blaming Ireland for the mess they have got themselves in, which isn't going to do too well for the natural friendship between ordinary people here or in Britain - scapegoatism and divide and rule ate two of the devices that have let to us being led by morons for far too long
When a couple of flag-waggers start dragging up events that go back as far as the Normans to revive ancient conflicts, I feel the need to respond - we've just seen fifty good reasons why such national and cultural hatred need to be nipped in the bud - they've just started to bury the results   
If I repeat myself (guilty on that one) I do so because I believe that's what you do with children who refuse to learn
Another repetition
I'm British born, my parents were British born - we are a English born family, yet, because I have chosen to live in Ireland over the last twenty years one of these morons refers to me as a "bogtrotter" while the other refers tot me as (presumably an Irish) "Nationalist"
I don't know how to deal with such people other than to repeat things they seem unable to grasp - they did away with 'special schools in Britain a long time ago
Anyway, when people get as nasty as they do, it gives a sort of perverted pleasure to allow them to humiliate themselves
Jim