Yes, Bobbyjoe's numbers are the most accurate according to what I have researched but everyone is missing the whole point. Like I said before, Northern Ireland was a disaster in the making. What is the difference between an islamic autocrasy and a Protestant autocrasy - just the religion. We wouldn't be having this discussion if the Northern Ireland government hadn't shut out the Catholics from participating in government, etc. If you don't believe the whole concept of Northern Ireland being an evil creation you are living with your head in the sand. Maybe they didn't chop off the heads of Catholics but they were oppressed all the same. Like I said evil begets evil. Northern Ireland practiced institutionalized discrimination. Let's face it, Ian Paisley and his crowd hate Catholics and the Catholic religion yet they go one unchecked. Read some of his speeches.
There is one point you keep missing - the people of the six counties VOTED to stay in the UK.