The IRA have more people on this island than anyone else (1800), their Loyalist counterparts come second (1200) - and the British security forces have only killed a couple dozen!!
Youre kidding, right? Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine alone brought about by British occupation and confiscation of lands from native Irish -- killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country.
I am no supporter of the modern IRA. But the British have killed far more Irish with their occupation of Ireland than the Marxist thugs of the IRA have ever dreamed of doing.