The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #40444   Message #581797
Posted By: Gervase
29-Oct-01 - 05:57 AM
Thread Name: Good news in NI
Subject: RE: Good news in NI
I don't know about the Peace Prize for Adams and McGuinness - but if they do get it, maybe it should be shared with the Bogota copper who nicked the three PIRA veterans training the FARC guerillas.
It would appear that the arrests, and the outrage they sparked, did as much as the events of September 11 to hasten the process.
Whatever; the fact that the process is in train is welcome - as is the fact that Adams and McGuinness seem to have been able to rein in some of the flakier Provos like Brian Keenan. CIRA and RIRA, for the moment, seem to have had their teeth drawn by the concerted efforts of the security forces and sensible nationalists, so even there there's cause of optimism.
However, as said above, now it's the turn for the Unionists to show that they're as big. And I do wonder if that's at all possible, given the intransigence and laager-lout paranoia that seems to permeate so much Orange thinking.

And, Guest/s, the playground name-calling and Brit bashing here does you little credit. If Adams and McGuinness can behave maturely, why not take a hint? Either that or shut the feck up.