[FatherofFive]

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!!

You’re 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.

[Brit_Guy]

"Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine alone"

Oh purlease. No one disputes that the Potato famine was a monstrosy of history. But the salient point is it was in 1845!!!!!

How would you feel if Native Americans were still planting bombs in shopping malls in the late 20th Century in protest at them being victims of ethnic cleansing in 1845? Would they have a case? Would you sympathise?

How about if someone justified the twin towers attack as Muslim revenge for the Cruscades because they were kind of rough on Muslims?

Ridiculous right?

Think.

[Lost Humanist]

Wow, thats some comment. I dont think you really like the British mate, its just a hunch.
Your comment seems to be making the leap to comparing the British (the whole nation it seems, all 60 million) with the terrorist scum of the IRA. Sorry sunshine, but the comparison doesn't hold up.
If we want to go back further then the Celts (Irish, Welsh etc) should go and bomb the crap out of the Rome for what their Empire did to the native Brits back in BC. Its absolute idiocy man, to say that the murdering of a British spy in Northern Ireland is ok, cos of a famine in Ireland 160 years ago. You cannot be making such a disrespectful claim as that can you?????
I cannot believe that their are US 'allies' out there you are happy to write this, and worse, not step up and shout it down when its said. Its an insult to all those who have died in the Troubles, on both sides of the wire, to justify murder in the name of righteousness.

[tonycavanagh]

re :You’re 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.

If you are going to revert to history we could talk about Americas treatment of the Indians, and that you were a slave holding nation right up to the 1800s.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

The Potato Famine was cause by potato blight, for God's sake!!

And what the hell has the Famine got to do with modern IRA??