Ard mhacha ...

Sorry, a chairde.

I hoped that my own feelings about the young lad's death were subsumed in the statement "I don't think you should use the tragic death of a wee young lad to start spouting."

Of course I'm apalled that some psychoes have snuffed out a young life just to destabilise further the current precarious political situation.

However you and I know that people from our neck of the woods would think twice about starting a thread of this nature. We have to live IN and WITH this sort of mess every day of our lives. We don't have the option of sitting in a safe haven doling out advice in a hectoring manner. Or trolling so that we can then turn the discussion around to make political points. In my view Fiolar can make all the political points he wishes, but I'd prefer that they didn't arise in such a cynical way out of the tragic loss of a young life. At the end of the day the mudcat forums are a way for a lot of bored people at work to wile away a few minutes while their bosses' backs are turned. I don't think we ought to cheapen the loss of a life in such horrific circumstances by using it as an excuse for a bit of amateur sophistry.