[Irish_Thatcherite]

Some people around here seem to think the IRA are the good guys - think again fools!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Will the pro-IRA fools admit they are wrong?

[canuck_conservative]

The IRA are gangsters.

And like all gangsters, they only way they command respect is thru pure, naked fear.

They offer no hope, just threats and misery. They're scum.

[Siena Dreaming]

A sidelight of Pres. Bush's WOT has been the weakening of the IRA.

Many of IRA's justifications for terror just don't work now that they are seen to be identical in some respects to those used by Muslim terrorists. I sensed this would happen only a couple days after 9/11.

Another victory in the WOT is that over the IRA IMHO.

[jordan8]

An obviously pro-Unionist study that adds little to the known facts, but simply tries to apply the phrase "ethnic cleansing" to the troubles in Fermanagh, and not very convincingly. As the authors themselves point out, Protestants were basically unmolested ion Fermanagh if they weren't a part of the security forces. It leaves out the close collusion between the Protestant population of Fermanagh and the security forces and given the bitterness of such conflicts a far better case can be made that the IRA and Republicans showed remarkable restraint there. Certainly nothing ever happened to the Protestant population of Fermanagh that was anything near as bad as what happened to Catholics in many parts of Northern Ireland, esp. Belfast. It should also be pointed out that the majority of those killed during the "Troubles" by Republicans were members of the security forces, while the majority of those killed by loyalists were civilians, often targeted for no other reason than suspicion of being Catholic, a bit of context for this study.

[Verginius Rufus]

How is 48% an "overwhelming majority"? John Kerry received 48% of the popular vote in the 2004 Presidential election--I wouldn't call that an "overwhelming majority."

[MHGinTN]

Rep. Peter King is an American 'friend' of the IRA.

[Thunderpants]

Apart from the fact that the first sectarian shooting of the modern Troubles was a UVF operation, that the first bombing was UVF, and that the Protestants burned down large sections of Catholic areas in retaliaion for the catholics having th temerity to demand civil right before the Provisionals ever fired a shot, you might have a point

[presidio9]

Did you, ah, say "teacake?"

[gondramB]

>>IRA were behind 48pc of Troubles murders A UNIVERSITY of Ulster academic yesterday blamed the IRA for the overwhelming majority of murders during the Troubles.<<

Professors really ought to be able to do math. 48 percent in not an "overwhelming majority."

[hosepipe]

The IRA was and is a Marxist organization..