Do you have any personal knowledge and/or facts to support your accusations? No! Nothing new here to Free Republic posters which is replete with anti-Irish-Catholic and/or anti-Irish bigots. After 160 years NINA is still a safe bigotry notice in America.

Get a grip newbie.

You think the recent catching of the IRA among the Marxist rebels of Columbia is the first time the IRA has mingled with the commie/terrorist underworld? Perhaps they were just there for Spanish lessons.

It's long common knowledge that the IRA has had relationships with Qhaddiffi in Libya and other Islamic terrorists around the world. Adams was just in Cuba praising Castro. It's you that needs to look up the facts.

That said, it's quite possible to be pro-Irish and anti-IRA. A majority of people in the Republic are against the IRA's use of violence and suspicious of Sinn Fein. The problem is that the minority in the Republic is not small enough.

Mind you, the UDF/UDP, and the Brits in general, don't get a free ride with respect to the troubles from me. The "Protestant" terrorists are no better than the IRA/RIRA/whatever.

And Alloysteel is right. The Irish aren't happy unless they're fighting with eachother.

FYI Gerry Adams was not in Cuba praising Castro. He was there showing his appreciation that Cuba supported the Irish hunger strikers in 1981. Your ignorance is laughable. Since you don't live in Northern Ireland and you quote the British line published in the BBC I suggest you expand your knowledge before advertising your lack of it.

Republican and loyalist terrorists are still flexing their muscles with little criticism from Blair and Ahern:

Hundreds more exiled by Ulster death threats

More than 700 people have been forced to flee from their homes in Northern Ireland because of paramilitary death threats in the past year, an increase of more than 50 per cent on 2000.