Fiolar ...

I didn't accuse you of having no sympathy with the murdered youth. I DID accuse you of not having "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 the reason I said that was your comment "Shame that someone with a large scissors couldn't cut that excuse for a state free and let it float away into the Atlantic."

Anyway ... I'm not sure that your comments, however well-intentioned, are at all helpful. As I said above you DON'T KNOW what it's like to live in Glengormley or the Short Strand, or the Garvaghey Road, or Kilwilkie or any place in this small island where the white noise of street politics hisses day in-day out in our ears. DON'T presume to lecture us from your safe vantage point with the sort of well-meaning, wooly liberal stuff that wouldn't get you very far in any bar either on the Sandy Row or the Falls Road. I'll leave you alone now to make whatever posts you see fit.

Slán.