Had an Irishman tell me years ago after the barriers came down at the No Ireland checkpoint and I had hitchiked a ride with him to Belfast.....”Don’t let anyone tell ya’ that The Troubles are over.”. He was adamant about that. That has always stuck with me.
As long as an unprosecuted criminal gang rules by fear, the troubles will never be over. The “modern” troubles are over a century old, with “truces” from time to time (in the muzzie world, those are “hudna”), but the “troubles” are not that much different than the continuous internecine warfare documented as long ago as the entry of the Normans (invited over by a Cavanaugh, I think, who needed some extra armed men to take on a rival petty king).