cool...
is it weird to support both sides in a co0nflict??
Well, I wouldn't call it "supporting" both sides.
I have nothing but the greatest affection for the Irish culture and civilization (which, as might need pointed out, pre-dates other European culture and civilization, including that of the English), but on the other hand, am puzzled that so many Irish, and Americans of Irish derivation, sympathize with a terrorist group whose purpose is not Irish-ness, but socialist totalitarianism.