It saddens me and Irish_Thatcherite, too. An Irish person, particularly a religious Irish person, intuitively wants to support independenc/reunification. “Quiet Man,” and all that. James Connolly.
But the fact is, the IRA are Marxists, and they’re hand in glove with all the worst people in the world.
I too am saddened. At one time, the greatest export from Ireland was the Irish themselves. Those were the olden days, Mrs. Tax.
Prosperity changes everything. I knew something was afoot when, some years back, the young woman who called me from “my local bank” was actually a “colleen” calling me from Dublin...no joke! The “back rooms” and checking services of most banks were then in Ireland. I guess things have gone far past that now.