"in order to keep the bombs from Great Britian - understandable, but misguided"
You know, I wonder if that's the case. 30 years ago or so, people who now occupy senior public positions would have been at university (or not long left). From what I've read, those universities (hotbeds of the far left as usual) were sympathising with and encouraging support for PIRA's bombing campaign back then. And we also have a terrorist threat (including the most devastating one to date last year) from TROP.
Now that you mention that - NI Secretary Peter Hain was (and still is) a moonbat in his youth.
But, it's probably for that reason that they have such an approach as appeasement!