IRA in arms breakthrough

BBC ^ | 23rd Oct 2001 | BBC

[Norn Iron]

TUAS, the tactical use of armed struggle, will continue. It's most unlikely that any Semtex will have been disposed of.

Blair is caught between the demands of the European Union and the struggle in Northern Ireland.

The EU will probably have pressed for the division of the UK into 12 smaller regions so that it can be more easily absorbed into the 'Europe of the Regions'. Regions are more easily dealt with than nation states. Don't forget it was Sinn Fein/IRA that led the NO campaign on the recent referendum in Ireland(republic) on the Nice Treaty. It doesn't want to see the end of the Irish nation and its neutrality.

Blair and Ahern are quite content to let the terrorists expand their fiefdoms so long as the violence is contained within NI. You've seen how little they've done in North Belfast as republicans apply pressure to the small loyalist enclave in Ardoyne and the violent loyalist reaction to that pressure. Note that the pressure was applied in the run up to that most unstable period in NI, the marching season.

[Colosis]

You've seen how little they've done in North Belfast as republicans apply pressure to the small loyalist enclave in Ardoyne and the violent loyalist reaction to that pressure

I love reading your excuses for the blast bombing of catholic going to school. Can you not accept that children have a right to go to school without bring terrorized?

[Norn Iron]

I support their right to go to school without being terrorised. You are merely condemning one of the guilty parties. Why?

I think it's shocking that children should be used and abused by republican and loyalist thugs in Ardoyne.