Fiolar ...

Unless you live here or have lived here, you DON'T KNOW. You made a silly statement in your first post that proves you haven't got the faintest shred of sympathy with the vast majority of people who try their damnedest to lead reasonably straightforward lives in circumstances which you would find completely unacceptable.

And yet again you make sweeping generalisations which cast aspersions on all of the people of Northern Ireland when only an immeasurably small proportion of head-the-balls are sufficiently psychotic to carry out a sectarian assassination.

I don't think your lecturing tone will go down too well with any of my compatriots who are very well informed about what they do when they come to cast their votes and whose choices may be as simplistic as you make out, but may on the other hand reflect the realpolitik of a deeply divided political landscape. (Yet another thing which pisses people in my neck of the woods off is the condescending attitude of outsiders who think that they are more, or better, politicised than we are.)

Your posts aren't helpful, Fiolar. I don't think you should use the tragic death of a wee young lad to start spouting. If you know anything about music, the primary purpose I thought of this board, could you please start some posts about that?