Posted on 09/22/2015 8:02:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Britain says a new expert panel will report on the activities of the Irish Republican Army and other outlawed paramilitary groups as part of efforts to heal the rift in Northern Ireland’s unity government. […]
The IRA in 2005 declared it had renounced violence and disarmed in support of power-sharing. Protestant leaders are threatening to end cooperation with the IRA-linked Sinn Féin party because of police assessments that IRA members killed a former Belfast comrade last month. …
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Keep at it. Nothing says unity like the ability to hold a grudge or two for 700 years.
The IRA have not disbanded , nor given up it’s main weapons. This is yet another pathetic appeasement by the British government like they are doing with all these immigrants.
Exactly what they are.
Well, no. But it’s what they’ve morphed into. My ancestors have been nothing if not consistent in making appallingly bad choices. Must be the uisge baugh.
Unfortunately, with having some Irish ancestors current and past, the ability to not get over a slight, real or perceived, is astounding in its tenacity.
It must be a genetic trait.
It is, a not a good one at that...
If not for drink, the Irish would rule the world.
That spelling indicates Scotch whisky. I try to advise my relatives against that stuff . . .
Yes, indeed they are murderous Marxists but the grudge has gone on for nearly 500 years - way prior to the IRA.
As I said - appallingly bad choices. Heh.
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