[constitutiongirl]

I am on the Nationalist side of the Irish conflict, but you are wrong in your assumptions of the loyalists in the Ardoyne area. That area has, until very recently, been a Unionist stronghold. Only in the last 10 years or so, as many Unionists moved up and out, did more Nationalists move to the neighborhood. The pent up frustration at becoming minorities in their own neighborhood is what prompted the attack on the Catholic schoolgirls.

[Colosis]

Point taken. But we have to be careful here - in the same way that no justificationcan be given to the terrorists who bombed NYC, the same should apply to those who blastbomb 4 year old kids. The reasons these thugs done this are irreverent - it is the violent act that counts and there is NO excuse for this sort of naked sectarianism. Unfortunetly, the thugs that done this have been rewarded with a multi million pound government investment in their area. "Do you want a million, we got loads" is what they were taunting the catholic parents with recently.